(Previous Incident Code: Ob77 )

In an unconfirmed US-waged strike in Datta Khel, north Waziristan, up to 11 alleged al-Qaeda militants were killed and three were left wounded, local and international sources reported.

The strike, that hit two vehicles in a military compound killed at least four and as many as 11 alleged militants, the lowest figure was initially reported by Xinhua – though most put the death toll higher. Among the fatalities were eight al Qaeda members, “a ranking Syrian and an Egyptian” included. Newsweek later carried rare eyewitness testimony from a militant survivor of the attack:

“The young Afghan and other members of his Al Qaeda unit were passing through the area in two cars when they made a stop outside a big walled compound, and Hanif was sent to fetch some supplies that had been left there a few days earlier. He knocked at the front door and then politely turned away, toward the cars. In Pashtun country it’s considered rude to wait facing someone’s door, in case it happens to be answered by a woman. But as Hanif’s gaze passed over the cars, one of them exploded. Moments later the other blew up. The roaring blasts from the American Hellfire missiles knocked him down. When the dust cleared, there was only a tangled mess of smoking metal where the cars had been. Seven Al Qaeda Arabs, including a ranking Syrian and an Egyptian, had been killed instantly. But Hanif found a badly injured fighter and tried to help him. “He had serious head and chest injuries,” Hanif tells Newsweek. “He died in my lap.””

All sources said that the strike was carried out by a US drone. A Pakistan official told AFP that “five missiles were fired by US drones.”

As of now, there are no reports of civilian harm.