16 February,2009 02:33 PM IST | | PTI
In a second major strike in last four days, the US drones targeted a Taliban hideout in Pakistan's restive Kurram tribal region, killing at least 15 people and wounding several others.
The drone fired two missiles at the hideout, where a meeting of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan was being held, TV channels reported.
There was no official word on the incident. Though US drones target Taliban and Al-Qaeda bases in Waziristan region, this was the first such attack in Kurram Agency.
Minutes after the strike, Taliban militants surrounded the area and were not allowing locals to approach the scene of attacks.
The missile strike came two days after another US drone attack in South Waziristan tribal region killed 32 people, most of them Uzbek supporters of Al-Qaeda.
Kurram Agency has also been a scene of widespread sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni tribesmen since last year.
Hundreds of people have been killed in clashes between rival tribesmen. The situation in Kurram Agency took a turn for the worse after Taliban fighters infiltrated the area and began backing the Sunnis.
