Drone-hit family: What did my grandma do?

October 30, 2013 11:40

A father and two of his young children have come to Capitol Hill to give the US Congress an unprecedented first hand testimony of the death, injury and fear visited upon innocent civilians by secret CIA drone attacks in remote northern Pakistan.

Rafiq-ur-Rehman, a primary school teacher in North Waziristan, lost his 67-year old mother, the local midwife, when a drone struck a field near his village on the sunny morning of 24 October 2012.

Two of his children -- Zubair, now 13, and nine-year old Nabila -- were wounded in the strike. On Tuesday, the three recounted their story. Read

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