A US drone strike destroyed a vehicle in Pakistain's Taliban-infested North Wazoo district on the Afghan border, killing six suspected cut-throats on Friday, local officials said.The two missiles struck the Tappi area, 10 kilometres (six miles) east of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan, where US officials want Pakistain to launch an offensive against networks fighting in neighbouring Afghanistan.
"A US drone targeting a beturbanned goons' vehicle fired two missiles killing four beturbanned goons," a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Another local security official confirmed the strike and casualties, saying the identity of those killed in the attack was not immediately known.
Friday's attack was the seventh to be reported in Pakistain's tribal areas near the Afghan border since US commandos killed the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest...
in a secret raid in the Pak city of Abbottabad on May 2.