PESHAWAR: Three US missile strikes hours apart killed 18 people in a terrorist stronghold near the Afghan border in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, two Pakistani intelligence officials said.
At least nine people were killed in the first strike when missiles destroyed a moving vehicle in the North Waziristan tribal region, the officials said.
Two hours later drones fired more missiles that struck people who had gathered to retrieve the bodies, killing five more. A third strike on Saturday evening once again targeted a moving vehicle in the Mohammed Khel area of North Waziristan, killing four people, they said.
The identities and nationalities of the 18 killed men were not immediately known, the officials said.
The latest three strikes came a day after four missiles struck a terrorist convoy, killing eight suspected terrorists.
An additional 35 were killed in similar strikes on Monday and Tuesday.
A total of 118 such strikes, carried out by unmanned aircraft, were launched in 2010 in the Tribal areas, killing up to 2,100 people, most of them terrorists, according to the Washington-based policy think-tank New America Foundation. Nearly all have hit North Waziristan. ap
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