<p>US drones struck a house and a vehicle in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan tribal region today, killing at least five militants.<br /><br />The missile strikes were carried out at Mohammad Khel and Degan in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan tribal agency that has witnessed numerous drone attacks in the past.<br />The house was destroyed when the missiles slammed into it.<br /><br />Five militants were killed in the strikes, security officials were quoted as saying by TV news channels.<br /><br />Reports said that the dead men were believed to be foreign militants.Drones continued to hover over the region after the missile strikes.<br /><br />This was only the second time that the CIA-operated spy planes have carried out attacks in Pakistan's tribal belt since November, when the drone campaign was halted in the wake of a cross-border NATO air strike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.<br /><br />A drone strike on January 10 in North Waziristan had killed Aslam Awan alias Abdullah Khurasani, a Pakistani national who played a key role in al-Qaeda.<br /><br />That attack broke an undeclared eight-week hiatus in drone strikes.Awan belonged to Abbottabad, the garrison town where al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces last year.</p>
<p>US drones struck a house and a vehicle in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan tribal region today, killing at least five militants.<br /><br />The missile strikes were carried out at Mohammad Khel and Degan in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan tribal agency that has witnessed numerous drone attacks in the past.<br />The house was destroyed when the missiles slammed into it.<br /><br />Five militants were killed in the strikes, security officials were quoted as saying by TV news channels.<br /><br />Reports said that the dead men were believed to be foreign militants.Drones continued to hover over the region after the missile strikes.<br /><br />This was only the second time that the CIA-operated spy planes have carried out attacks in Pakistan's tribal belt since November, when the drone campaign was halted in the wake of a cross-border NATO air strike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.<br /><br />A drone strike on January 10 in North Waziristan had killed Aslam Awan alias Abdullah Khurasani, a Pakistani national who played a key role in al-Qaeda.<br /><br />That attack broke an undeclared eight-week hiatus in drone strikes.Awan belonged to Abbottabad, the garrison town where al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces last year.</p>