(Previous Incident Code: Ob194 )

An alleged US drone killed five people, reported both as civilians and militants, as well as wounded up to seven others, local and international media reported after a house in Landidog, south Waziristan, was struck.

The house that was struck reportedly belonged to Fazal Karim and was left completely destroyed, sources reported.

All reports said that five people were killed, possibly all civilians, or “foreigners” according to one local official – and that at least two but as many as seven were left wounded.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s field researchers later reported: “Five were killed and seven injured when the house of a tribesman Fazal Ikram was hit. Many people said he wasn’t a militant and that those killed were civilians. However, some sources insisted that those killed were militants.”

Rescue work was delayed due to three drones remaining over the village. The attack came hours after a local tribal meeting called for an end to the CIA strikes. Daily Times cited elder Malik Ajmal who told a senior Pakistan government official: “We would like an immediate end to the drone strikes which have made our children and women psychologically ill.”

All reports attributed the strike to a US drone.