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has risen to 26, officials said Tuesday, less than a week after a US-Canadian family held captive by the turbans was rescued.The barrage on Monday targeted a meeting of Haqqani fighters in Pakistain's remote tribal Kurram district along the Afghan border in the deadliest attack on the group this year.
"First dronezap killed five fighters from Haqqani network and minutes apart a second drone then fired two more missiles after turbans arrived to retrieve dead bodies from the rubble," a senior government official in Kurram told AFP Tuesday.
"So far 26 dead bodies have been retrieved and drones are still flying in the sky," the official said.
The US has increased pressure on Pakistain in recent months to crack down on the outfit.
A second government official in Kurram confirmed the dronezaps and the new corpse count.
Both officials said the strikes took place on the border with Afghanistan, with part of the compound sited in Afghan territory.