Live! US drone strike kills Pakistan Taliban No 2?

May 29, 2013 20:11

Deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban Waliur Rehman was reportedly among four persons killed in a US drone attack in North Waziristan tribal region today, the first such strike since the country's general elections.

The CIA-operated spy plane targeted a house in Chashma Pul area of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan Agency, early this morning. Four suspected militants in the house were killed instantly and two others injured. Local residents said several drones were seen hovering over the area after the attack.

Rehman, the deputy chief of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, was among the dead, security officials told journalists in the northwest.

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