A US drone strike targeting a vehicle in tribal belt near the Afghan border killed four militants on Tuesday, local security officials said. The missile attack, the second in two days, took place near Qutub Khel village, five kilometres (three miles) east of Miranshah, the main town in the restive North Waziristan district.
Tuesday's attack came as Marc Grossman, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, met with diplomats from the two countries in Islamabad. "Two missiles were fired from a US drone targeting a militant vehicle. So far, four militants were killed," a security official said. Another security official in the area confirmed the attack and the toll.
In a strike on Monday two drone missiles killed at least four militants in South Waziristan. Drone attacks are unpopular among the Pakistani public, which is opposed to the government's alliance with Washington and sensitive to perceived violations of sovereignty.
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