PESHAWAR: At least five suspected militants were killed in a US drone strike carried out in North Waziristan’s Mangroti area on Saturday.
This was the second US drone strike of the day in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region. Earlier in the day, at least 20 suspected militants were killed in a similar drone strike in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province close to the zero line near Pakistan’s Khyber tribal region.
Security sources said those killed belonged to the militant Islamic State (IS) group in Afghanistan.
They were killed when the drone targeted suspected militant hideouts in Nangarhar’s Achin district. Several suspected insurgent compounds were also destroyed in the attack.
Security officials have in the past warned against IS gaining a foothold in Afghanistan’s eastern region, where the group reportedly murdered tribal elders, clashed with the rival Taliban, imprisoned families and enforced strict rules on women. A top commander of the banned Tehrek-e-Taliban Pakistan was among those killed in the US strike in North Waziristan. The target of the drone strike was a militant hideout in Mangroti, a village situated on the border of North Waziristan with Afghanistan in snow-covered Shawal mountainous region in Data Khel Tehsil.
DAILY TIMES.
YEMI.
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