US drone strike kills 4 more in NW Pakistan
At least four people have been killed in a fresh US drone strike in Pakistan’s volatile North Waziristan tribal area near the Afghan border.
According to sources, the strike took place when the assassination drone fired two missiles at a vehicle in the Shawal area of the militancy-riddled North Waziristan late on Monday.
The car was completely destroyed in the strike, leaving the four dead.
On May 18, another US drone attack claimed the lives of at least three people in Pakistan’s northwestern restive tribal region. A similar attack killed four people in the Warokey Mandi area of North Waziristan, where the Pakistani military forces have been operating against pro-Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants since last June.
The US regularly uses drones for airstrikes and spying missions in Afghanistan, as well as in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt, among other places.
Washington claims that the targets of the drone attacks are militants, but local officials and witnesses maintain that civilians have been the main victims of the attacks over the past few years.
The aerial attacks, initiated by former US President George W. Bush, have been escalated under President Barack Obama, who has defended the use of the controversial drones as “self-defense”.
The United Nations says the US drone attacks are “targeted killings” that flout international law.
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