A US drone attack killed five people in northwest Pakistan yesterday, local intelligence officials said, the latest in a barrage of such strikes against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants that have long sought sanctuary in the region.
Also in the northwest, four militants stormed a police complex, killing two officers, and gunmen attacked tankers carrying fuel for Nato and US troops just across the border in Afghanistan, wounding a driver and his assistant, police said.
Four American missiles were fired at a house in North Waziristan, the area that has seen the overwhelming majority of attacks over the last two months, said the officials, who did not give their names because the agency they work for does not allow its operatives to be identified.