By SPA
Dera Ismael Khan, Pakistan : A pre-dawn explosion demolished a house in Pakistan’s wild frontier zone on Thursday, killing up to 12 people, two intelligence officials and a local militant said, according to AP.
The blast was reported in a village in South Waziristan, a region bordering Afghanistan where militants linked to al-Qaida and the Taliban operate.
The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear.
One intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak on the record, said about 10 foreign militants were believed killed.
Six others were wounded in the strike in the village of Kalosha, the official said, citing initial reports from informants in the area. He had no further details of the victims’ identity.
The official, based in Dera Ismail Khan, a city near South Waziristan, said the suspects had been staying in the home of a tribesman.
A second intelligence officer said the explosion rattled the windows of his office in Wana, South Waziristan’s main town, about 10 kilometers (six miles) away. He said the nationality and further identity of those killed was unclear.