At least three people have been killed after a suspected US drone fired missiles into Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, Pakistani intelligence has said.

The attack late on Tuesday targeted a Taliban residential compound in Dargamandi village in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan.

It was not immediately clear whether any Taliban fighters were present in the area at the time.

The United States has fired scores of missiles from unmanned drones into the tribal regions since last year in a campaign targeting al-Qaeda and Taliban commanders.

Tuesday's attack was the second in the North Waziristan tribal region in less than 24 hours.

A similar strike targeting a madrassa (Islamic school) and an adjoining house in Machikhel village killed at least five people on Monday.

Residents on Tuesday said they had seen the drone hovering in  the sky and had been expecting the missile attack.

Washington alleges Al-Qaeda and Taliban rebels who fled  Afghanistan after the 2001 US-led invasion are holed up in the  semi-autonomous tribal belt.

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