Two drone strikes in 1 day- Toll 60 but may increase

JUL 8 - At least 50 people have reportedly been killed in a second US missile strike today targeting suspected militants in the northwest tribal belt, both US and Pakistani medias reported.

The strike targeted suspected militants' five vehicles in Makeen near WANA district of South Waziristan Agency.

According to news reports, four guided missiles fired from a US drone hit the vehicles allegedly carrying suspected Taliban fighters, killing 25 of them and destroying the vehicles in the blitz.

The death toll may rise, reported AFP.

Earlier today, 10 militants were killed in another US missile strike Wednesday morning in the same region.

On Tuesday, a US missile strike pulverised a compound said to be in a stronghold of the Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud, killing at least 12 foreign and local militants.

The strike, carried out by a suspected unmanned US aircraft, destroyed a compound in the Zangara area of South Waziristan — part of the tribal belt called FATA on the Afghan border.

One missile struck a Taliban hideout in the hamlet of Chinakai, killing foreign and local militants, in a reference to suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban militants. It was not immediately clear whether any high-value target was present at the time of the strike.

Twelv bodies were pulled from under the rubble of the compound, which was destroyed in the strike.

Since Tuesday there has been three drone attacks in the last 24 hours and the death toll has rises to 37. Some reports say the toll is 40 and may increase.

There has been no immediate reaction from Islamabad.

US says it carries out drone strikes with the tacit approval of the Pakistan government.

Islamabad denies any such agremeent exists.