(Previous Incident Code: Ob149 )

A double strike on a house and car killed more than six people, with six people injured. ‘Foreigners’ were said to be among six dead alleged militants.

Shrapnel also killed Naeem Ullah, a 10-year-old boy in the next-door house.

Local photographer Noor Behram, who visited the site shortly after the attack, reported, “Naeem Ullah was only 10 years old and after being injured he was taken to hospital but he expired after an hour of reaching there. The picture (above) was taken just before his death.”

The Bureau’s own field researchers report that his death caused ‘outrage’ in his village. Pakistani lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar, who helped uncover the case, told the Bureau:

Finding cases such as Naeem’s, which was not initially picked up by media, is always troubling. It suggests there may be many more civilian deaths than reports indicate.