(Previous Incident Code: Ob31 )

The local political administration‘s internal records tallied 17 killed in this strike – all ‘miscreants’ and four of them Uzbeks. Up to 21 people were killed, including three women and six children (one named as Syed Wali Shah, pictured below), in an attack on a madrassa linked to Sirajuddin Haqqani. Five houses were destroyed, and no rescue was initially attempted because of the continuing presence of drones. The father of dead child Syed Wali Shah later told photographer Noor Behram:

We had no idea of what was happening or why. We heard a blast at around 2.30 in the morning, and then part of a missile hit our house in the courtyard where the whole family was sleeping.

The News identified others killed as four men named as Gul Dar, Haji Munawar, Zainullah and Sahibullah. The dead women and children included Naeemullah and his mother, Faizullah and his mother and two girls named as Rahima and Shaista. It reported that five other bodies were taken away by the Taliban.

2009.08.21 Syed Wali Shah, aged 7  Ob32 / Noor Behram