An unmanned drone aircraft launched a missile after coming under fire from the ground in South Waziristan on Saturday, killing one militant, officials said. The incident in Makeen, in the insurgency-hit South Waziristan tribal region, comes just days after an air strike by US-led coalition forces based in Afghanistan that Pakistan said had killed 11 of its troops.
"A drone was flying in the area of Makeen and extremists tried to hit it with a rocket-propelled grenade," a local security official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "The place from where the RPG was fired was struck by a missile fired by the unmanned drone killing one suspected militant," the official said.
The Pakistani military and international forces in Afghanistan were not immediately available for comment. Several missile strikes in the tribal belt this year have been attributed to the US-led coalition, killing a number of people.