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Three missiles from the unmanned aircraft hit the camp in the
Shawal area of South Waziristan just after midday, two
intelligence officials told Reuters. Nine suspected militants
were reported injured, they said.
The United States halted drone strikes for the first six months
of 2014 while the government engaged in ultimately fruitless
peace talks with the Taliban insurgency.
But the strikes restarted in June, just days before the military
announced an anti-Taliban offensive, and their pace stepped up
this month.
Five suspected militants were killed in a strike in Shawal on
Monday, and another five killed in a strike in the same area on
Sunday.
The Shawal valley is a thickly forested, mountainous area where
many of the militants who fled the anti-Taliban offensive are
believed to be hiding.
Pakistan's government routinely publicly protests the strikes as
an infringement of its national sovereignty. But former
President Pervez Musharraf admitted strikes during his term were
approved.
(Writing by Katharine Houreld; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
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