(Previous Incident Code: Ob2 )

As many as ten civilians were killed in an airstrike on a house in Ganki Khel, due to alleged US airstrikes, local media reported.

The attack on what was allegedly the wrong house killed eight members of Malik Gulistan Khan‘s family, including Khan, three of his sons (the youngest aged three), and a nephew, according to local media.

Son Adnan survived the attack.

A single report claimed seven ‘foreigners’ and three children had died, whilst journalist Pir Zubair Shah alternatively reported those killed as ‘a local elder, along with his son, two nephews, and a guest.’ Khan’s brother later met with researchers from CIVIC to describe his family’s plight, “We did nothing, have no connection to militants at all. Our family supported the government… no one has accepted responsibility for this incident so far.”

In a later report on strikes Ob1 and Ob2 personally given to President Obama by his CIA chief, the Agency admitted missing its high value target but gave no details of civilian deaths, according to Bob Woodward. This was contradicted by a 2012 report in Newsweek stating that Obama was informed almost immediately of the civilian deaths.

Letter obtained by Civic revealing that local authorities knew of January 23 civilian deaths.