A village on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border has come under aerial assault, possibly carried out by a US drone aircraft.
 
Residents said a house in Damadola village had been targeted and that about a dozen people had been killed.
 
In 2006, the US attempted to kill Ayman al-Zawahri, the deputy head of al-Qaeda, in the same village.
 
An unnamed Pakistan security official said the people who had died on Wednesday were militants, including foreign fighters in the house of two "al-Qaeda facilitators".
 
Major-General Athar Abbas, a Pakistan army spokesman, could not confirm the reports, and said that the army was not in the area.
 
There is support for al-Qaeda and the Taliban in the mountainous tribal areas of Pakistan.

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