(Previous Incident Code: Ob231 )

An attack on a car killed up to eight alleged militants. The News reported tribal sources at the time as saying that ‘a local villager driving his personal car came under drone attack’.  The Bureau’s own researchers in Waziristan investigated, and reported:

This drone strike was also directed at the New Adda (new public stand) in Dattakhel town. The New Adda has been attacked at least thrice. Eight suspected militants, all Pakistanis from local tribes, were killed in the attack. A civilian named Abdul Jalil, hailing from the Khaddar Khel clan was also killed. He had come home from Dubai, UAE where he was a migrant worker, on leave.

The Asian Tribune reports that seven “militants” were killed and three injured in a strike on Godi Waila, a village also located in Datta Khel; it is unclear if this was part of the same strike.