(Previous Incident Code: B27 )

A US drone attack on a former school in Tol Khel, north Waziristan, killed between 10 and 15 people, with nearby houses also reported damaged. The Express reported that 12 members of one family died in the attack, and that whilst most were “local Taliban,” three women and two children were among the dead.

The Express was the only media explicitly reporting about civilian fatalities, though other reports did not reject that civilians were harmed.

The alleged militants killed were reported by other sources to be members of a Kashmiri group known as al-Badr. Fourteen people were also reported wounded, though their identities were unclear.

The destroyed building reportedly belonged to a local variously named as Shah Adam, Yusuf Khan or Shadim Khan (who had rented it out.)

Almost a year after the strike, the US confirmed its involvement in a secret intelligence report:

“A Predator killed 10 to 15 militants associated with Al Qaeda facilitator Qari Imran’s training camp.”