PESHAWAR, Pakistan ‚ Five people were killed and three wounded when a United States Predator drone fired missiles into a house in Baghar Cheena, near Angora Adda in the restive South Waziristan tribal region, local residents said Wednesday.
The residents, who brought the wounded to a hospital in the regional center of Wana, said that drones fired four missiles, two that hit a house, and the two others that landed in the mountains.
The attack occurred in the evening, as the villagers were breaking the Ramadan fast in the evening, they said.
Local militants immediately cordoned off the area, retrieved and shifted the bodies to undisclosed location. Local residents said none of the injured were from the area, but came from the Punjab.
A Pakistani military spokesman, who identified himself only as Major Murad, said only that an investigation was under way..
A senior security official confirmed the missile attack but said that identity of those killed was yet to be established.
The attack came on a day when the chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, o met with Pakistan's army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.
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