Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Pakistan officials: toll from US strike reaches 29

The death toll from suspected U.S. missile strikes on two villages in Pakistan near the Afghan border has risen to 29, Pakistani intelligence officials said Saturday.

The latest reports from informers and agents in the area of Friday's attacks showed that 29 people had died, said two intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to brief the media on the record.

Officials initially said that 27 people died in the North and South Waziristan regions, including several foreign fighters.

Another suspected missile strike later hit a village in South Waziristan, killing seven people, including an …

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