(Previous Incident Code: Ob201 )

An attack on either a housing compound or a car reportedly killed up to five people, possibly including civilians, in Datta Khel, north Waziritstan, local and international media reported, who all blamed a US drone.

Sources put the death toll between three and five, mainly describing the killed as alleged militants.

An internal record of drone strikes, published by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in January 2014, listed three killed in this attack: one from the tribal regions and two described as ‘non-local’ – either foreigners or Pakistanis from outside the tribal region.

However, two sources, Xinhua and Dawn, who put the death toll at three and four, did not specify the killed as being militants. For example, Xinhua reported: “With the attack the vehicle was totally destroyed and three unknown persons, either militants or common citizens, were killed on the spot.”