Source: Wall Street Journal

MIRAN SHAH — Missiles that witnesses say came from an unmanned drone flattened a suspected militant safehouse Sunday in Pakistan’s tribal area along the Afghan border. State television said the strike killed about 20 people.

Witnesses said a drone dropped seven missiles on the sprawling, mud-brick compound about three miles outside Wana, the main town in South Waziristan. Only U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan are known to operate unmanned drones in the region, and they have launched attacks over the Pakistani border before.

Osama bin Laden and other senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding.

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