Ten persons were killed and four others wounded in South Waziristan after 10 missiles were fired from across Afghanistan reportedly by US forces, local elders said on Tuesday.The missiles were fired after Taliban attacked a coalition forces checkpost in Paktika province. "Some 10 missiles hit a house in Sra Khawra, 20 kilometres north of Angoor Adda near the Afghan border and 10 casualties were reported," sources close to border guards told Daily Times.
The Taliban engaged the coalition forces in Paktika early on Tuesday and the crossfire lasted more than an hour, the sources quoted the border guards as saying. Local authorities in Wana said it was not clear the killed people were Taliban or civilians. An unmanned spy plane was seen hovering over the area during the missile attack, local residents said.
Yar Mohammad, a resident of the area, told The Associated Press by telephone that he had seen Taliban removing bodies from the attacked building and taking them away in vehicles.