2 US drone strikes kill 6 militants in North Waziristan

At least six militants were killed when US drones fired missiles twice on Sunday in North Waziristan Agency. In the first strike, four missiles were fired on two vehicles in the Mana Gurbaz area of district Shawal in North Waziristan Agency killing four militants, while two were killed in the second strike. An official of the security forces from the area told reporters that around 4:30am two drones hovering in the air fired missiles on two vehicles carrying militants. “They were coming from Mana Gurbaz to Miranshah when the drones took over them,” he said, adding that the vehicles were completely destroyed. A local tribesman said that the militants killed in the strike were from the Hafiz Gul Bhadar Taliban group, an influential local Taliban commander in North Waziristan Agency. The first strike which targeted a compound had killed at least six militants in Shuwedar village in Shawal district on Saturday. The Shawal district borders with Afghanistan, an area covered with forests and high mountains, strategically and geographically an important place and constantly targeted by drones.