Unidentified Drone Strike Targets House in Eastern Afghanistan

Sources confirmed to Afghanistan International that a drone strike targeted a house in Bahramkhel village of Ismailkhel and Mandozai district of Khost province. According to the sources, at least two children have died due to the strike on Tuesday morning.

The drone strike targeted the house that belonged to Mufti Farooq, who is a resident of Pakistan’s Waziristan, but recently had taken over as the Imam of the village mosque.

A doctor at the Khost Civil Hospital confirmed that the bodies of the two children had been transferred to this hospital.

The Taliban have not commented on the attack so far.

Local residents in Khost province said that a drone had been flying in the sky of Ismailkhel and Mandozai district since Monday night and dropped a bomb on a house in this district at four in the morning on Tuesday.

No further details about the origin of the drone is known so far.