KURRAM AGENCY: A suspected US drone strike killed two men on Thursday in a Pakistani village near the Afghanistan border, a local government official and a village elder said.
The missile struck two men riding a motorcycle in Pakistan´s northern Kurram Agency. It was not clear who was being targeted, the official said.
"A drone missile struck the motorcycle which caught fire and then exploded," said Haji Zamin Hussain a village elder from the area.
There had been no drone strike by the US in Pakistan since May 21, 2016.This was one of the longest periods that no US drone attack had taken place in Pakistan.
The May 21, 2015 drone strike was the first one in Balochistan. It killed the Afghan Taliban supreme leader Mulla Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor, who was reportedly returning to Quetta after a secret visit to Iran.
The drone strikes by the US under the supervision of the CIA in Pakistan began in 2004. According to the London-based Bureau of Investigation, there have been 424 drone attacks in Pakistan to-date. It said these attacks killed a total of 2,499 to 4,001 persons including 424 to 966 civilians.
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