(Previous Incident Code: Ob157 )

Up to nine people were killed and at least two other people injured in a joint strike by up to eight drones on a house and car in Ghulam Khan, north Waziristan.

Although a number of sources described those killed as alleged militants, The News and Geo TV stated that they were “local tribesmen,” indicating possible civilian casualties. A secret Pakistani record of drone strikes, published by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in January 2014, said eight “locals” died in the strike. However the document did not identify the men as civilians.

The Taliban later killed three alleged “drone spies” in the area. The Chinese news agency Xinhua reported: “The three dead bodies were found at a bazaar near the strike area with a letter placed on them from Taliban saying they are spies providing information for U.S. drone attacks.”

This was reportedly the first of two US drone strikes on November 7th. The second strike is detailed in Ob158.