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'Another US strike' in Pakistan US drones 'bomb Pakistan target'
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At least three people have been killed in a suspected US missile strike on militant targets in Pakistan's border region, witnesses and officials say. At least 11 people have been killed and 15 injured in a suspected US missile strike in Pakistan's border region, witnesses and officials say.
Another 15 people were injured when a suspected drone aircraft hit a house in North Waziristan. Suspected aerial drones bombed a house and seminary linked to Taleban commander Jalaludin Haqqani.
Pakistan's army says it is investigating the incident. Pakistan's army confirmed an explosion in the North Waziristan tribal area.
It would be the fourth attack in less than a week allegedly carried out by US forces, who have not officially confirmed their involvement. It would be the fourth cross-border attack in less than a week allegedly carried out by US forces, who have not officially confirmed their involvement.
Villagers say unmanned US aircraft fired several missiles at a house and an Islamic seminary in a tribal area in North Waziristan. This follows persistent US accusations that Pakistan is not doing enough to eliminate Taleban and al-Qaeda sanctuaries in the border region.
"There were two drones and they fired three missiles," an unnamed resident of Dandi Darpakheil, a village near Miran Shah, the main town of North Waziristan told Reuters. The upsurge in strikes has alarmed Pakistani military and government officials, who say it seriously undermines their counter-insurgency operations
Security officials say that the house was used by Jalaludin Haqqani, an Afghan Taleban commander said to have close links to Osama Bin Laden. Bodies
Reports suggest that he and his son, who is also a Taleban commander, were not at home. Villagers say unmanned US aircraft fired several missiles at a house and an Islamic seminary in the tribal area of North Waziristan.
But some of his relatives, including women and children, are said to have been killed and injured. Haqqani and Sirajuddin were in Afghanistan at the time of the attack - they are alive Badruddin Haqqani
In recent months, US forces have been accused of attacking suspected Taleban targets in the region on the Afghan border with drone aircraft. Officials and witnesses say the complex was hit a number of times.
Last week Pakistan condemned an alleged raid by foreign troops based in Afghanistan which officials say killed at least 15 villagers in South Waziristan. "There were two drones and they fired three missiles," an unnamed resident of Dandi Darpakheil, a village near Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan, told Reuters news agency.
In the same week, five people were killed in a suspected US missile strike on militant targets in the North Waziristan tribal area. Other reports speak of three drones.
Pakistan's army has warned that such direct US action could rally more tribesmen behind the Taleban and incite a wider uprising. Casualties are reported to include militants, as well as a number of civilians.
The BBC's Barbara Plett in Islamabad says this upsurge in strikes has alarmed military and government officials here, who say it seriously undermines their counter insurgency operations Security officials say that the house belonged to Jalaludin Haqqani, a veteran Afghan Taleban commander said to have close links to Osama Bin Laden.
Mr Haqqani and his son, Sirajuddin, who is also a Taleban commander, were not at home, another son, Badruddin, told Reuters by telephone.
Badruddin Haqqani said one of his aunts had been killed in the raid, and that women and children were among those who had been hurt.
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan says the residential-cum-seminary complex has been raided a number of times by the Pakistani army, and hit by aerial attacks from across the border with Afghanistan.
Mr Haqqani has maintained the complex since 1980 and family, clansmen and militants still use the premises, our correspondent says.
Our correspondent says militants immediately cordoned off the entire area and shifted bodies dug up from the debris elsewhere.
Officials in Miranshah say they still do not have evidence that any high-value target may have been hit.
Rising tensions
In recent months, US forces based in Afghanistan have been accused of stepping up attacks against suspected Taleban targets over the border in Pakistan's tribal region.
Last week Pakistan condemned an alleged raid by foreign troops based in Afghanistan, which officials say killed at least 15 villagers in South Waziristan.
In the same week, at least 10 people were killed in two suspected US missile strikes on alleged militant targets in North Waziristan.
Pakistan's army has warned that such direct US action could rally more tribesmen behind the Taleban and incite a wider uprising, our correspondent says.