(Previous Incident Code: Ob45 )

Up to 14 alleged militants were killed and as many as a dozen wounded in an attack on a ‘training compound’ or house. Some ‘foreigners’ may have been among the dead, according to reports.

But lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar has challenged these claims. He has named Razm Khan, 15-year old Sakeenullah and Shafiq as civilians killed in the strike. In a case placed before the UN Human Rights Council in February 2012 he states:

On November 20, 2009, Razm Khan; Sakeenullah, a grade ten student and cousin of Samiullah; and Shafiq, were gathered in Aziz Khel, Miranshah, North Waziristan. At 8:30AM a missile struck the building, killing everyone inside. None of the victims were involved in any terrorist activity or with any terrorist organizations; they were innocent villagers.

The News said that the struck house belonged to a man named as Gandak.