MIRAMSHAH, Sept 24: Six people were killed and two others inured in a US drone attack in Mir Ali tehsil of North Waziristan tribal region near Afghan border on Monday.

Sources said the drone fired a missile on a house in the Degyan area of Dattakhel which caught fire. Local people retrieved six bodies from the burnt-out house. Names of the deceased could not be ascertained till late innight.

Security officials, however, said the attack had killed five militants, adds AFP.

The strike targeted a compound known as a bastion of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. The drone fired two missiles, they said.

`The area has sanctuaries for all groups of Taliban and foreign militants,` an official said.