New US drone strike kills 4 militants in Pakistan: officials

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Sept 3, 2010 (AFP) - A second US missile strike on Friday killed four militants when it targeted a car travelling through Pakistan's lawless tribal belt, Pakistani officials said.

The target of the attack -- the second within an hour -- was a car in Datta Khel, a small town some 30 kilometres east of North Waziristan's main town of Miranshah, officials said.

"US drones fired three missiles at the car, killing at least four militants inside the car," a security official in Peshawar told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Two intelligence officials in Miranshah confirmed the new attack and the death toll, an hour after a drone had fired two missiles on a suspected militant compound on the outskirts of Miranshah, killing six militants.


by Joseph Krauss
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