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US drones killed up to five people and injured three more late at night of October 31st, in the first strike in a month. Local sources alleged that the unmanned aircraft fired two missiles that struck a house and car in or near a bazaar in Miranshah that caused two large explosions.

A senior security official reportedly said the vehicle was ablaze as local people tried to recover the dead and injured. The official alleged to Focus that those killed were militants, although another source The News said bodies could not be immediately identified.

Some initial reports of the strike predicted the death toll to rise. However unnamed Pakistani intelligence officials told the Associated Press no one was killed in the attack. Several sources put the death toll at three and claimed three were wounded. The Nation put the death toll at five.

This was the first drone strike since Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif met with Obama in Washington.