Up to 21 suspected fighters were killed when a US drone fired two missiles destroying a vehicle and a compound in the northwestern Pakistani district of Waziristan.

Up to 21 suspected fighters were killed when a US drone fired two missiles destroying a vehicle and a compound in the northwestern Pakistani district of Waziristan.

Pakistani officials said the dead were Afghan fighters from the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, considered the top US foe in eastern Afghanistan.
"More dead bodies have been dug out of the debris. Twenty-one militants from the Haqqani group were killed and three were injured," a Pakistani security official told AFP news agency in Peshawar, the largest city in the northwest.

"It was Haqqani's compound and his fighters were using it as a camp. They used to gather round for midnight food," said another Pakistani official.

"All those killed were Haqqani's men and Afghans, but we have reports that some Arabs and Uzbeks were also present at the time of attack and were killed," the official added on condition of anonymity.