US drone kills three in North Waziristan

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A drone plane. — File Photo

MIRAMSHAH: Three people were killed when a US drone fired missiles at a suspected compound in Ghulam Khan Tehsil of North Waziristan Agency on Wednesday, according to witnesses.

They said two missiles were fired at the compound located in Bangi Dar area near the Afghan border.

Local people retrieved the bodies, the sources said, adding the dead could not be identified.

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