A US drone strikes in Pakistan’s northwestern area killed five people on Sunday.

A US drone strikes in Pakistan’s northwestern area killed five people on Sunday.

AFP news agency said the dead were militants, adding that one of them was a commander.
“At least five militants have died. The house has been badly destroyed," a security official told AFP, on condition of anonymity.

Two other security officials confirmed the strikes in Wacha Dana town, 10 kilometres (six miles) west of Wana.
One intelligence officer put the death toll at six.

The agency added that four missiles hit a house belonging to the commander, quoting officials as saying that the attack took place near Wana -- the main town in the South Waziristan tribal district near the Afghan border.

AFP also cited a security official who said that the commander who was killed was Malang Jan, an associate of warlord Maulvi Nazir who sends fighters to Afghanistan to support the Taliban.