A US drone strike killed seven militants at a compound in Pakistan's tribal North Waziristan region yesterday, security officials said.
The compound was located by a road in Shewa district about 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of the region's main town of Miranshah.
The drone fired four missiles at the compound and two vehicles parked outside were also destroyed, an intelligence official in Miranshah told AFP.
"At least seven militants were killed and three wounded," a security official in Peshawar told AFP, raising his earlier casualty estimate.
The casualties were confirmed by two other intelligence officials in Miranshah.
The strike is the latest in a series of US operations in the region that are believed to have targeted Taliban and al-Qaeda extremists plotting attacks in Europe.
Security officials said last week that a drone strike had killed five German militants.