(Previous Incident Code: Ob13 )

As many as eight civilians were killed, including three children, and others were injured in US led drone strikes on Ganki Khel, local media repoted.

Explosives-filled vehicles, reportedly being prepared as truck bombs, created ‘an enormous secondary explosion’ when they were struck by drones.

The New York Times, citing anonymous US and Pakistani intelligence officials, wrote, “A truck parked inside a Qaeda compound in South Waziristan, in Pakistan’s tribal areas, erupted in a fireball when it was struck by a C.I.A. missile. American intelligence officials say that the truck had been loaded with high explosives, apparently to be used as a bomb, and that while its ultimate target remains unclear, the bomb would have been more devastating than the suicide bombing that killed more than 50 people at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad in September.”

The attack was also said to have flattened a compound reputedly owned by brothers Dayam and Waken Khan. Reuters claimed that nobody was killed in the attack, and that the compound was empty. However The News reported that civilians had died, with The Nation saying that women and children were among those killed.

SATP reported that “eight persons were killed and two others sustained injuries when a suspected US spy plane fired missiles at two houses in the Ziyari Noor area near Rustam Adda in South Waziristan Agency.”

Sources said the US drones continued hovering over the area for hours and one of them fired missiles at the houses of Daim Khan Wazir and Wali Khan Wazir at 10:00 am, leaving eight civilians dead and two others injured. SATP added that “The houses were completely destroyed in the attack and three vehicles parked inside were also damaged.”

The attack came one day after the negotiation of a local ceasefire.