Suspected US drone strike kills five on Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier
A suspected US drone strike killed five people on the mountainous Pakistan-Afghanistan border, government and militant sources said on Tuesday, days after a Canadian-American couple held hostage by the Taliban were freed from the same area.
Taliban sources said at least five members of the Pakistan-based Haqqani militants, allied to the Taliban, were killed in Monday's strike and eight were wounded.
On Friday, US drones were seen hovering near the area in northwestern Pakistan where American Caitlan Coleman, her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, and their three children, all born in captivity, were freed.
