Washington, January 06: Using drones, the United States mounted Wednesday three successive missile raids in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 13 people.
The attacks were carried on the Sangzlai area in North Waziristan’s Tehsil Datta, reported the private satellite news channel Samaa.
North Waziristan has witnessed a growing number of US missile raids.
The attacks, carried out by the US Central Intelligence Agency in cooperation with the Pentagon, reportedly killed more than 700 civilians in Pakistan in 2009.
Islamabad says it is involved in major offensives against militants in the northwestern parts of the country as the large-scale presence of the US military in Afghanistan has sent the gunmen across the border into Pakistan.
—Agencies