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Missile strike in Pak tribal belt leaves 7 dead

Press Trust of India

Friday, September 05, 2008, (Islamabad)

At least seven people, four kids and three women, were killed in the latest missile strike in Pakistan's restive tribal belt by a drone believed to be operated by the US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan as Islamabad declared that it reserved the right to retaliate.

The drone fired three missiles at a home in Gorwack village in North Waziristan tribal agency, killing four children and three women and injuring several others.

It was the fourth such attack in the area within a week. A total of 18 people have been killed and 15 injured in the missile strikes by drones.

On Wednesday, the US-led ground forces from Afghanistan had intruded into Pakistan for the first time. Twenty people, many of them women and children, were killed in the raid at Angoor Adda in South Waziristan by helicopter gunships and commandos of the US-led coalition forces that day.

Gen Tariq Majid, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, condemned the "callous and wanton" Wednesday attack by NATO forces in Angoor Adda. He said such cross-border strikes would "further alienate the locals and would be counter-productive".

During a meeting with visiting German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung, Majid said, "Pakistan reserves the right to appropriately retaliate in future" against such strikes.

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