(Previous Incident Code: Ob107 )

As many as 14 people were killed and five were injured when a US led drone attack hit Issori, local media reported.

The attack occurred during Ramadan prayers and killed TTP local commander Amir Movia and other alleged militants, some described as ‘foreigners’. A nearby house was also hit.

The figured suggesting fourteen people in total died with five injured. In February 2012, after extensive field research, Associated Press gave more details about the attack, revealing seven civilians including a child were among the dead.

Citing three separate and named sources AP noted, “the attack killed seven Pakistani Taliban fighters and seven tribesmen, said Shera Deen, the owner of the compound that was hit. Safir Ullah, a student, corroborated the casualty count, as did a third villager who spoke on condition of anonymity. Deen, who was not in the compound when it was attacked, said he lost two sons, a brother and three nephews, one of them 10 years old. The seventh tribesman killed was 26-year-old Sohrab Khan, who was leading evening prayers for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan when the missiles struck, the villagers said.”

AP went on to report: “according to them, the Taliban fighters entered the compound to join the prayers, which would explain why they were bunched together with civilians. The tribesmen were buried in a graveyard with a wooden headstone indicating they were victims of a drone attack, the villagers said. The Taliban fighters were buried in a different corner of the same graveyard in an unmarked grave.”

In January 2014 the Bureau published an internal Pakistani record of CIA drone strikes that said 13 people were killed in this attack. The document said: ‘The dead included 07 Mehsuds, 05 locals and 01 unknown.’