US drone kills five in Pakistan

Pakistan: At least five people were killed in a Sunday attack by a US remote-controlled airplane against an alleged training camp of Islamic insurgents in north-western Pakistan.

According to private Geo TV television channel, the raid took place in Mirali, a tribal region of North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan.

Two missiles launched by unmanned aircrafts hit a housing complex in the Zor Babar Aidak small village, near Mirali town, The Nation website reported.

The United States has increased the use of unmanned aircrafts in north-western Pakistan since the December suicide attack against a base of the Central Intelligence Agency in the neighbouring Afghanistan.

Washington argues that the attacks are aimed at the Taliban and the victims are the members of this organization and of other Islamic insurgent groups who wage war on its occupation troops in Afghanistan.

The Pakistani Government has rejected that kind of operations with the argument that they violate sovereignty and increase the anti-American feeling in the local population.

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