3 killed in 2nd drone attack in NW

MIRANSHAH (Agencies) Missiles fired from a US drone slammed into a car killing three militants Friday, the second strike in two days in North Waziristan, security officials said.
The bodies were burnt beyond recognition. We are trying to determine their identity, said one security official.
The bombing comes the morning after a US drone attack killed four militants in Machikhel village, about 25 kilometres east of Miranshah on Thursday night.
According to BBC, a key commander of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Haji Umar Khan, was killed in the US drone strike on Machikhel village near Mir Ali Thursday night. He was a wanted militant
Haji Umar had made a peace agreement with the government in Wana in 2005 but this pact could not sustain and he declared to attack Pakistan forces, and American troops fighting in Afghanistan.
Friday morning attack by a drone aircraft struck a vehicle carrying suspected militants in Ghundikala village, 15 kilometres east of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan and close to the Afghan border.
A US drone fired two missiles, targeting a vehicle and killing three militants, a senior security official in the area told AFP.
The identity of militants is not known yet. It is also not clear whether any high value target was present in the area when the attack took place.
The official requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the US strikes in Pakistan, which have killed at least 662 people since August 2008 and greatly inflame anti-American sentiment in the country.
We saw a vehicle engulfed in flames after the missile strike, a local tribesman in the area told AFP by phone on condition of anonymity.
It was difficult to go close to the vehicle as it was surrounded by militants, who later removed dead bodies from the wreckage.
It was not clear which group was targeted.
Seven US missile strikes in the same area of North Waziristan have killed 44 people in the past month, although the identities of those killed are hard to verify as the deaths are deep in Taliban-controlled territory.