Three militants killed in US drone attack

At least three suspected militants were killed in a US drone attack in the restive North Waziristan tribal region in northwest Pakistan today, official sources said.
   
The drone fired two missiles that struck a house in the Datta Khel area, about 50 km west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan Agency, the sources said.
   
The exact identity of the three persons killed could not immediately be ascertained.
   
The US has stepped up drone attacks in North Waziristan since a suicide bomber linked to the Pakistani Taliban killed seven CIA operatives at a forward base in neighbouring Khost province in Afghanistan in December last year.