U.S. drone missile strike kills three

Published: Nov. 29, 2008 at 2:48 PM

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A missile believed fired from a drone U.S. aircraft has killed three people in Pakistan's tribal areas, an official said Saturday.

The missile struck a village in the North Waziristan district of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Muhammad Nasim, a local political official, told CNN. The FATA is the home base of Taliban Islamic militants operating on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

No other information on the missile strike was immediately available, the broadcaster said.

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