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Summary A teenager who protested against US drone strikes has been killed by a drone.
The boy joined a protest against drone attacks but later CIA-operated spy planes in North Waziristan tribal region launched an attack in which the boy was also killed, a campaigner against the drone strikes said on Tuesday.Sixteen-year-old Muhammad Tariq of North Waziristan had joined hundreds of tribesmen in a rally against drone strikes in the Pakistani capital on Friday.The protesters had called for an immediate end to the strikes, saying they killed many civilians, a report said.Tariq was killed with his cousin Waheed, 12, in a US drone strike last night near Mirali, a key town in the restive North Waziristan tribal agency, said Karim Khan, who is leading a campaign against the missile attacks.Khan, who belongs to Mirali, had lost his son in a drone attack last year.He filed a case against the former CIA station chief and several top US officials in a police station in Islamabad for what he said was the murder of innocent tribesmen in drone strikes.At least four people were killed in Monday nights drone strike on a house and a vehicle, according to local media reports.It was the forth strike in Waziristan in five days.On Sunday, US spy planes fired six missiles at a house in North Waziristan and killed at least six people.At least 11 people, including a key Taliban commander, were killed in two strikes in South and North Waziristan on Thursday last.The US has stepped up drone strikes in recent months despite opposition from the Pakistan government.
