PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Suspected U.S. missiles killed four people in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, the latest in a surge of such attacks since a suicide bomber staged a deadly assault on CIA employees just across the frontier in Afghanistan.
The attack was the sixth in just over a week in North Waziristan. The area is the stronghold of the Haqqani network, an Afghan Taliban group with links to al-Qaeda.
Two Pakistani intelligence officials said two missiles hit a house and a vehicle Friday evening in a village near Miran Shah in North Waziristan. They said four people were killed and three injured but did not identify them.
Earlier Friday, eight suspected militants were killed when the explosives they were handling went off prematurely in a house in the southern city of Karachi, authorities said. The Associated Press
