Awwal 18, 1432 H / April 22, 2011, SPA -- Four missiles fired by two suspected U.S. pilotless aircraft hit a house in Pakistan's tribal region of North Waziristan on the Afghan border on Friday, killing 25 militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The drone strike happened in Mir Ali, a town about 35 kilometres (20 miles) east of the region's main town of Miranshah. An intelligence official in the region, who requested not to be identified, told Reuters that the house was being used as a militant hideout. "They (the militants) have surrounded the area where the attack happened and are not allowing anybody to go there," he said, adding 25 bodies had been recovered from the rubble and three women were among those killed. Another official said some foreign militants were among the dead, but that their numbers and nationalities could not confirmed.
