US drones attack Pakistan’s Khyber area for second day
At least 12 people have been killed in a series of attacks by US drones in the past 24 hours in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal district, officials say.
The missiles, fired from unmanned aircraft, hit houses in at least two villages in the Tirah Valley.
Security officials said all the dead were militants - a claim that cannot be independently confirmed.
Drone strikes are credited with killing many top insurgents, but have angered many people in Pakistan.
There have been more than 100 attacks by pilotless US aircraft in 2010, most of them in the tribal region of North Waziristan. Drone attacks in Khyber are rare.
The strikes in Tirah targeted the villages of Speen Drang and Shandana, according to security officials.
They said seven pro-Taliban militants loyal to the Lashkar-e-Islam group had been killed in one drone strike on Thursday. At least five more of the group’s fighters died on Friday.