Qari Zainuddin, second from right, with his bodyguards. An assassin loyal to the Pakistani Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, killed Mr. Zainuddin on Tuesday. Ishtiaq Mahsud/Associated PressU.S. Drone Strike Said To Kill 60 In Pakistan -- New York Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An airstrike believed to have been carried out by a United States drone killed at least 60 people at a funeral for a Taliban fighter in South Waziristan on Tuesday, residents of the area and local news reports said.
Details of the attack, which occurred in Makeen, remained unclear, but the reported death toll was exceptionally high. If the reports are indeed accurate and if the attack was carried out by a drone, the strike could be the deadliest since the United States began using the aircraft to fire remotely guided missiles at members of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the tribal areas of Pakistan. The United States carried out 22 previous drone strikes this year, as the Obama administration has intensified a policy inherited from the Bush administration.
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