Summary The Taliban did not immediately comment on the strike in the Bobar Ghar area of South Waziristan.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: The death toll from a US drone strike in a restive tribal region has risen to 9, an official told Associated Press on Saturday.
Two intelligence officials said Saturday that three suspected militants wounded in the Friday s strike on a militant compound died overnight. They had originally put the death toll at six.
The officials said their field informants confirmed two members of al-Qaida, Abu Majid Al Iraqi and Sheikh Abu Waqas Al-Yamani, were among the dead. They said the remaining seven were all members of TTP.
Both officials spoke anonymously as they weren t authorized to speak to the media.
