(Previous Incident Code: T002 )

CIA drones killed seven or ten members of the Pakistan Taliban, or TTP, according to a senior regional official. A single source claims that three civilian “labourers” were among those killed in the attack, Abdullah Wazirstani, spokesman for North Waziristan Taliban, told Reuters.

North Waziristan’s political agent, Kamran Afridi, told Reuters it was a drone strike. Afridi named Abdur Rahman or Abdul Raheem and Akhtar Mohammed among the dead. Rahman, a senior TTP commander, was said to have been killed by “several other militant sources,” Reuters reported.

Unnamed government and security officials told international news agencies that a drone strike hit in North Waziristan late at night on Wednesday local time.

“We have received reports of a drone attack in North Waziristan in which some seven militants have been killed,” a security official told AFP.

A local tribal leader, Malik Waheedullah, told Reuters he watched two missiles hit a house in the mountains. The building caught fire he said, adding: “I drove away as fast as I could.”

An unnamed Pakistani intelligence official reportedly told Anadolu Agency that Abdul Raheem had been killed, described as an “important commander of al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan”. The report has used figures attributed to the Bureau that are not accurate.