Wazoo, security officials said.The attack took place in Datta Khel town, 35 kilometres (22 miles) west of Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
, the main town in North Waziristan region which borders Afghanistan.
Six US drones flew over the area when one of them fired two missiles at a compound in the Manzarkhel area of the town.
"The drones kept hovering at the compound for a while and then one drone fired two missiles at the time of sunset," a local security official said.
An eyewitness said that the compound caught fire after the strike leaving all the bodies burnt.