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Suspected US missile attack kills two in Pakistan

Two people were killed in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on Saturday after a suspected US missile attack, security officials said.

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  • Published: 13:46 November 29, 2008
  • Gulf News

Islamabad: Two people were killed in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on Saturday after a suspected US missile attack, security officials said.

"A missile was fired at a house owned by one Taj Mohammad, and we have reports of two men killed," said an intelligence agency official.

Another security agent and a Taliban militant confirmed the strike and the death toll at the house in the village of Chashma, north of the region's main town of Miranshah.

There was no immediate information about the identity of those killed.

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