MIRAMSHAH: At least four people were killed when drones fired missiles into a compound in Darga Mandi area of North Waziristan on Wednesday.

According to some people in Miramshah, the regional headquarters, the drones fired six missiles early in the morning. `We heard six blasts when we were offering the morning prayers,` a resident told Dawn by phone.

A security official said the missiles hit a house near a seminary operated by the Haqqani group, about 2km north of Miramshah. `The missiles hit the compound and a vehicle parked inside,` he said.

`Four people were killed in the strike. We don`t know if they were fighters of the Haqqani network, the official said.

`But they do not appear to be militant leaders.

There aren`t too many of them left here,` he said, referring to a number of activists killed in drone strikes over the past years. `What is left of the Haqqani network now is its leader Siraj Haqqani and the son of another leader 1(illed in a drone strike.

There was no independent confirmation of the number or identities of those killed.

Some local people said the attack had claimed six lives.