(Previous Incident Code: Ob11 )

As many as 18 civilians were killed, including up to five children and five women, when an alleged US led strike hit an ammunition store at a Taliban camp, damaging nearby houses.

‘Teacher’ or ‘militant sympathiser’ Tariq Dawar Khan was also reported possibly killed, along with ‘a number of foreign militants’. However, the Taliban said all of the dead were civilians.

All Voices put the death toll at 18, however most others sources reported that 13 were killed.

The News reported that those killed were not foreigners but house owner Mohammad Hussain, his nephew Shafiq and relative Qadir, along with five women and five children from their immediate families. Other reports placed the number of women and children killed between five and seven.

Dawn reported that, “A tribesman said the place was littered with body parts and it was difficult to recognise the victims. He said that villagers collected body parts from rubble and put them into sacks for burial.”

Reuters reported that ‘hours later, Pakistani Taliban militant leader Baitullah Mehsud claimed responsibility for a shooting at a US immigration center in New York in which a gunman killed 13 people, saying it was revenge for U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan.’ However the perpetrator of that attack appeared to have no links whatsoever with any militant group.

It was reported by local tribesmen that “the place was littered with body parts and it was difficult to recognise the victims. He said that villagers collected body parts from rubble and put them into sacks for burial.”