Peshawar (Pakistan): Fourteen people were killed in a suspected air strike on a home in Pakistan's restive tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Friday.
The incident in Mamoon town in Bajur tribal zone, around 100 kilometres north of Peshawar, is the latest in a spate of violence to hit the area in recent weeks.
Residents said the family compound of a tribesman called Gul Zaman was targeted.
"Some planes bombed the house of this person and 14 people were killed in the bombardment," said a Mamoon resident.
The Pakistani military said locals had told them that 14 people died in a blast in Bajur but that they had not confirmed the casualty toll.
"We have information from people in the area about some explosion and that 14 people were killed but we have not confirmed it yet," said a military spokesman in Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province.
Pakistan has pushed around 70,000 soldiers into the tribal areas to flush out al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters who fled Afghanistan after the US-led invasion in late 2001.
Bajur borders Afghanistan's Kunar province and is a hotbed of the ongoing Taliban insurgency.
Seven paramilitary troops and 14 suspected insurgents were killed in a gunfight on Tuesday in North Waziristan tribal region.
Pakistan said a senior Egyptian al-Qaeda commander named Hamza Rabia died in North Waziristan in December when munitions exploded inside his house.
Locals said a missile fired from a US drone killed him.
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