(Previous Incident Code: Ob244 )

In the second reported strike of the day, drones attacked ‘a group of fighters’ in a compound in South Waziristan, killing up to six people. A Pakistani intelligence official told CNN that ‘The compound on the border was used by militants to routinely fire missiles at NATO and Afghan National Army forces.’ Another official told AFP the dead were linked to militant commander Maulvi Nazir, with The News stating that:

Some sources said that all the dead were militants, and no civilians were reported killed; four had links with the Mullah Nazeer-led group while two were from Afghanistan. After the incident, the local tribal elders held a meeting to condemn the attack.

The local political authority in Pakistan’s tribal region kept a secret record of CIA drone strikes and casualties. The Bureau published this document in January 2014. It listed six killed in this attack, saying ‘two Arabs and two Afghan Nationals were killed’ along with two locals.