(Previous Incident Code: T005ciii )

A drone strike hit near the Afghan border in Pakistan’s Kurram Agency, according to multiple sources. Three to Seven combatants were killed. Multiple sources also reported that three or four “people” were killed, without clarifying whether these people were civilians or not. Their combat status, therefore, remains unclear.

Most reports placed the death toll to three, however, Reuters reported four killed and Abdullah Asrat a spokesperson for the provincial governor of Paktia province claimed seven militants were killed and two of them were wounded.

Different sources claim the militants killed belonged either to Haqqani network or the Taliban.

There is some uncertainty regarding which side of the Afghan-Pakistan border the strike happened. Pakistani officials placed the compound on the Pesho Ghar mountain in the Kurram tribal region’s Ghuz Ghari area.

Villagers initially reported a blast in the Upper Kurram area to authorities, one of the officials told Reuters. The official said an informant later said that it was US drone strike. However, official Abdullah Asrat told AP the strike hit Afghan soil. Paktia borders Kurram Agency.

In October, a number of strikes were reported on the Afghan-Pakistan border, with different sources saying it hit on different sides of the border.