Suspected US Drone Strike Kills Five on Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier

Suspected US Drone Strike Kills Five on Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier
The Parachinar Federally Administered Tribal Area is located in Northwestern Pakistan near the Afghanistan border. Google Maps screenshot by The Epoch Times
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PARACHINAR/PESHAWAR, Pakistan—A suspected U.S. drone strike killed five people on the mountainous Pakistan-Afghanistan border, government and militant sources said on Tuesday, days after a Canadian-American couple held hostage by the Taliban were freed from the same area.

Taliban sources said at least five members of the Pakistan-based Haqqani militants, allied to the Taliban, were killed in a Oct 16 strike and eight were wounded.