US drone strike kills Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud

• 01/11/2013 - 18:50

  
  

  Peshawar (Pakistan) (AFP)

  

  A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan on Friday killed Pakistani Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud, intelligence and militant sources told AFP.
  The drone fired two missiles at a vehicle in a compound near Miranshah, the main town of the North Waziristan tribal region, a stronghold for Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants, killing four people, security officials said.
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