(Previous Incident Code: Ob247 )

An attack on the Pakistan Taliban (TTP) which only emerged two days later reportedly killed between 13 and 22 members of the militant organisation. Pakistani security officials told Reuters that ‘there was strong evidence that Taj Gul Mehsud, a senior Taliban commander and close aide to TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud, was among the victims in the attack.’  A further five of those killed were reportedly locals from Miranshah, where they were buried. Reporting of the strike was reportedly delayed due to the remoteness of the attack’s location. No civilians have so far been reported killed or injured because of the strike.

On December 23 2011 a TTP suicide bomber attacked a Pakistan Frontier Corps post, killing six, in what it said was a revenge attack for the death of Mehsud.