A U.S. missile attack in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border killed four people on Saturday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

One of the two missiles fired by a pilotless drone aircraft hit "a village house used by militants", killing four people and wounding five others, officials said.

The identities of the people killed could not be ascertained. A second missile landed in a nearby field.

The strike took place near Mir Ali, the second major town of North Waziristan.


Reuters