(Previous Incident Code: Ob57 )

A vehicle was destroyed killing four men standing next to it – alleged in some reports to be militants of Hafiz Gul Bahadur’s faction. Three people were injured. CNN put the attack as happening at 7.45pm; locals told the broadcaster that two of the dead were foreign while three were local. However, lawyer Shahzad Akbar reports that the men were civilians, and has named them as government high school teacher Akbar Zaman, Mir Qalam, Saad Wali Khan and Muhammad Fayyaz. In the next door house, 3-year-old Ayeesha (right) was also reported killed by missile shrapnel. In a detailed account of the attack placed before the UN Human Rights Council in February 2012, it was stated:

Janatullah is a resident of Bora Khel, Miranshah, North Waziristan, Pakistan. His brother is Mir Qalam, 19 years of age. Akhtar Zaman is a resident of Tapi Ghundi Kala. His brother is Akbar Zaman, a high school teacher in Government High School Supghala. Neither Mir Qalam, Akbar Zaman, nor any other members of their families have participated in terrorist activities, nor have they been affiliated with terrorist organizations or people.
On Friday, January 8, 2010, Mir Qalam was driving to the nearby village of Tappi on a dinner invitation. He stopped outside a shop in market in Tappi, to talk to some acquaintances, namely: Akbar Zaman; Saad Wali Khan, a local tribesman; and Muhammad Fayyaz, another local tribesman. At that moment, a drone fired a missile near where they were standing, killing all four of them. Mir Qalam left behind a widow and a baby daughter. Akbar Zaman left behind three daughters and four sons, the eldest of which is 9 years old.

An internal Pakistani government document published by the Bureau in January 2014 said six people were killed in this attack. It recorded two of the dead as ‘local’ and four as ‘non-local’.