Pakistan says U.S. drone attack kills five

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A suspected U.S. drone airstrike in a Pakistani tribal area near the Afghan border Friday killed five people, Pakistani authorities said.

Two Pakistani intelligence officials say three missiles likely fired from an unmanned, remote-controlled U.S. aircraft hit a house in a village near Miramshah, the main town in North Waziristan, Dawn newspaper reported.

The identity of the dead was unclear, the officials said.

The region where the attack took place is dominated by the Haqqani network, a militant group bent on driving U.S. and NATO troops out of Afghanistan, the English-language Pakistani newspaper said.