(Previous Incident Code: Ob51 )

Local Taliban commander Abdur Rehman Wazir was (again) reported to have died following a strike that killed up to thirteen alleged Taliban and injured a dozen as they ate dinner. The reputed home of Asmatullah was destroyed. A Taliban commander later told The News: ‘We lost fourteen of our dear colleagues. They were all locals.’ This contradicted a secret Pakistani record of CIA drone strikes published by the Bureau in January 2014. It said 13 locals and ‘no foreigners’ were killed in the strike.

In contrast Al Jazeera reported a local intelligence official as saying that ‘those killed were all civilians’. And photographer Noor Behram was told that six members of one family had also died. It may be that another property was also hit in the strike.