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'US missile' hits Pakistani house | |
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A missile from a suspected US unmanned aircraft (drone) has killed at least three people in a Pakistani tribal area close to Afghanistan, reports say. | |
Unnamed Pakistani security sources say it hit a house in the village of Tappi, North Waziristan. A Reuters news agency source saw the blast from a distance. | |
There was no immediate US confirmation of the attack. | |
Cross-border raids by US forces targeting Islamic militants have strained relations with Pakistan. | |
An unnamed Pakistani intelligence official told Reuters that the missile had killed four people when it hit the house of a tribesman sympathetic to militants, who was "entertaining guests" at the time. | |
Pakistani security sources quoted by AFP news agency said three people had been killed, without identifying them. | |