(Previous Incident Code: Ob61 )

Six people were reported killed in a shortly after Ob60. GeoTV said the drones attacked ‘an hour after’ the previous strike, while Dawn reported the strike was ‘a late-night attack’. The target was reported to be either a house or a ‘religious seminary and adjacent house’ although one report described it as a ‘residential compound’ and another described several houses adjacent to a religious seminary having been struck by the drone strike. TTP commander Azmatullah Mawiya was said to be among the dead. However that report was apparently premature – he was alive as of an August 2013 report saying he had been expelled from the TTP. Asia Pulse reported the strike seriously wounded seven and killed 10 including ‘top militant commanders’ Khawaja Muhammad Mehsud and Qari Hussain, a TTP leader credited with organising bombing squads. However Qari Hussain appears to have survived several further attacks (including Ob21, Ob137, Ob142 and Ob147) and was added to the US list of designated terrorists in January 2011.

No civilian casualties have so far been reported, although the destruction of civilian infrastructure has been weakly suggested by some media reports.