(Previous Incident Code: Ob229 )

An attack on a house and/ or car killed up to thirteen alleged militants, including ‘foreigners’, and injured five. Five students ‘with militant links’ were killed in either this or Ob230, three named as Hafiz Bilal, Waheed Ullah and Fayaz. As Pakistan Today reported:

All five youngsters belonged to Southern Lakki Marwat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. One of them, identified as Hafiz Bilal was a BSc Geology Student in Khan Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan. Sources said Bilal went to the Waziristan region in the summer vacations where he was present in a militant compound when a US drone struck the building, killing him.

The News described a complex mix of people killed, including ‘Punjabi Taliban and tribal fighter… foreign fighters and some Arab nationals.’