The US unmanned aircraft pounded a hideout of suspected militants in Nazyan area of Khyber Agency, a militancy-infested tribal area along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Dawn said on its website.
The militants' compound was razed to ground following the attack and local people pulled the bodies out of the debris, said the report, adding that all the killed militants belonged to the banned outfit Islamic State's Afghanistan chapter.
Friday's strike by the US drones was the 14th of its kind in Pakistan and the first in Khyber Agency since the beginning of this year.
To date, over 90 people have reportedly been killed in such strikes.
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23/10/15
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Large number of casualties after bombing at Shiite procession in Pakistan...
ReplyDeleteAt least 15 people were killed and dozens injured in a suspected suicide blast targeting Shiites in the southern Pakistan city of Jacobabad Friday, police and hospital officials said.
"Many injured and bodies were brought to the Civil Hospital," senior police officer Zafar Iqbal told AFP, who initially described it as a suicide attack but later said police were still investigating.
Civil Hospital chief Dr Altaf Wagan confirmed that at least 15 bodies and more than 36 injured people had been brought in, and said that more wounded had been shifted to two other hospitals nearby.
The attack came outside the residence of a local Shiite leader as devotees were setting off towards a main procession in the city marking the holy month of Muharram, Iqbal said.
Provincial transport minister Mumtaz Jakharani, who was at the hospital, said that 15 to 20 people were "martyred" in the attack.
He said protesters had gathered at the hospital, with some damaging hospital equipment.
(AFP)
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