A suspected US missile strike slammed into a Taliban camp in tribal area of Kurram on Thursday, killing 15 militants, including suspected al Qaeda fighters, security officials said. Two missiles fired by an unmanned drone struck the den in the tribal area of Kurram.
"Fifteen militants, mainly Afghan Taliban, were killed in the missile strike at their training centre in Kurram. Dozens are wounded," a senior security official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "The training centre was run by local Taliban commander Fazal Saeed and training was underway at the time of the strike," the official added.
Taliban militants have sealed off the area and were retrieving bodies from the rubble of the building late Thursday, officials said. It was the fifth missile strike blamed on unmanned US aircraft since US President Barack Obama came to power, dashing the Pakistani publics hopes that the new administration would abandon the policy.
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