ISLAMABAD (AFP) - At least a dozen militants including foreign fighters were killed Wednesday in a suspected US missile strike on two houses in northwestern Pakistan, a senior security official said.
Two missiles apparently fired by a US drone aircraft demolished a house and a compound used by suspected Al-Qaeda militants in Bajaur tribal region near the border with Afghanistan, the official, who declined to be identified, told AFP.
ief military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told AFP that the army was unaware of any missile strike in the region.

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) - A suspected missile strike late Wednesday in a Pakistan border village destroyed a house and killed about a dozen people, residents and a militant spokesman said.
At least two explosions hit Damadola village, in the Bajur tribal region near Afghanistan, late Wednesday said residents, who reported seeing drones flying in the area beforehand.
rom a U.S. Predator drone struck a terrorist safehouse in Pakistan in January, killing al-Qaida commander Abu Laith al-Libi, who was believed to be responsible for the bombing during a visit last year by Vice President Dick Cheney to Afghanistan.

A missile slammed into a house in border town in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing about a dozen people, residents said.
At least one explosion went off in Damadola, a village in the Bajaur tribal area, about 200 kilometres northwest of Islamabad, near the Afghan border late Wednesday. Residents said they saw U.S. drones flying in the area.
A-sponsored aircraft fired missiles at a house in Damadola under the mistaken belief that senior al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri was there. At least 17 people were killed.

From AP KHAR, PAKISTAN - A suspected missile strike late today in a Pakistan border village destroyed a house and killed about a dozen people, residents and a militant spokesman said.
At least two explosions hit Damadola village, in the Bajur tribal region near Afghanistan, late today, said residents, who reported seeing drones flying in the area beforehand.
of a fort-like compound. Local Taliban were still searching for bodies, they said.