Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was in the area of northwest Pakistan where a US drone strike killed at least 10 people Thursday but left before the missiles hit, a militant spokesman said. Missiles fired by unmanned US aircraft hit a militant training camp early Thursday in a remote area on the border between North and South Waziristan, strongholds of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group, officials said. "Hakimullah Mehsud was present at the same place in Shaktoi where the drone attack took place," TTP spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP by telephone. "But he had left the place already when the drone attack took place. He is alive and completely safe." Tariq did not say when Mehsud left the area, which is in Pakistan's lawless northwest tribal belt bordering Afghanistan.