DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. missile strike hit a Taliban communications center in the country’s northwest late Friday, killing at least three people and wounding three more, intelligence officials said.
The attack was the fifth in two weeks attributed to American unmanned drone aircraft targeting Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and his network of militants.
Three intelligence officials said the drone fired two missiles at the communications center in the Painda Khel region of South Waziristan. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
South Waziristan is part of the lawless tribal region along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, and top Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders are thought to be hiding there, helping plot attacks on American troops across the border.
