Two Pakistanis killed in US drone attack

Wed Nov 4, 2009

Two people have been killed as a result of a US drone missile attack in the tribal region of North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan.

Pakistani intelligence officials confirmed that there were casualties in early Thursday's strike that targeted a house in a village near the town of Miranshah.

The news comes as the United Nations warns Washington about indiscriminate use of drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan, saying that it may be breaking humanitarian law.

On October 27, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions Philip Alston had said that the US had done nothing to demonstrate that it was not randomly killing civilians in violation of international law by the use of drones.

According to independent reports, since August 2008 alone, around 70 cross-border predator strikes carried out by American drones have resulted in the death of 687 Pakistani civilians.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/110480.html.