Taliban confirms Mehsud injured in US drone attack

The leader of the Taliban in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, has been wounded in the latest American drone attack, a Taliban spokesman has said.

According to the spokesman, Azam Tariq, Mehsud was wounded in Thursday's attack which claimed the lives of at least 15 people in the volatile region of North Waziristan in Pakistan.

Tariq further pointed out that Mehsud had left the site of the attack, a converted religious school, before the missiles struck.

The United States has stepped up its drone strikes in Pakistan since seven CIA agents were killed in neighboring Afghanistan.

Hundreds of people, many of them civilians, have been killed since 2006 in the CIA-operated drone strikes in Pakistan.

Source: PressTV.
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