(Previous Incident Code: Ob236 )

At least four people were initially reported killed and two people wounded, according to a senior Pakistan security official quoted by agencies.  A vehicle was hit, which may have been the intended target. Also severely damaged was a nearby house. Both were in the vicinity of a girls’ school near the bazaar. There was speculation that the target was members of the Haqqani Network, with AP reporting two possible ‘foreigners’ killed. This was later disputed, with reports that all of those killed were locals. The News reported that all of those killed were ‘local tribal militants’:

Two rooms and the boundary walls of the targeted house as well as nearby houses remained intact as the missile struck the courtyard. The occupants of the house were reportedly sitting in the courtyard preparing to have Sehri, the nighttime meal before fasting, when the attack took place.’

The Nation and Deutsche Presse-Agentur subsequently reported a local intelligence official as saying that two or three women and a child were among the dead. However in January 2014 the Bureau published an internal Pakistani record of CIA drone strikes. It listed only two people killed in this attack.