Gender |
Child |
|---|---|
Tribe |
Unknown |
Age |
13 |
Reported status |
Reported civilian |
Osama Haqqani is reported to have been a ‘distant’ relative of Badruddin Haqqani, a senior operative in the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) allied Haqqani Network.
Osama died on August 21 2013 when a suspected US drone strike hit a house and a vehicle in Shnakhura, Datta Khel, North Waziristan, killing at least five and as many as 25 people, including Badruddin, the son of Haqqani Network founder Jalaluddin Haqqani.
Local media reported that the house Osama was staying in was hit by two missiles, before a car Badruddin had escaped to was also hit. A Haqqani Network source told Reuters that the majority of strike victims were members of the Haqqani family.
A reporter for Dawn.com said after the stike there were ‘three fresh graves in the family graveyard of Haqqanis’, adding that the Haqqani family was reluctant to hold a funeral ‘amid persistent US drone flights in the area’.
Maulvi Ahmed Jan, a senior leader and ‘purported spokesperson for the network’s chief Sirajuddin Haqqani’, quickly confirmed Osama’s death and suggested it was his funeral that had been ‘mistaken by locals for Badruddin’s’.