By Xinhua,
Islamabad : At least six people were killed in a missile strike at a religious seminary in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal region early Monday, TV channels reported.
The pre-dawn attack, which happened at about 3 a.m. local time (2100 GMT) along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region of Azam Warsak, also injured three others, according to the TV.
Local residents said that the missiles fired from unknown directions struck the seminary house belonging to a local cleric Maulana Jalail, who is considered to be linked with Taliban.
Eyewitnesses were quoted as saying that the U.S. spy planes were hovering over the sky at the time of missile attack, suggesting that the spy planes were likely to have conducted the air raids.
Political officials said that the investigation into the incident has started.