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Urgent: U.S. drone strike in Pakistan kills driver, passenger, not Mullah Mansoor -- Pakistani media

Xinhua, May 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

The U.S. drone strike launched in Pakistan on Saturday afternoon (Pakistan time) has killed a taxi driver and a passenger, but not Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mansoor, reported local Urdu TV channel Samaa on Sunday.

The report said that the bodies of the two killed have been brought to a hospital in Nushki, a district close to Ahmad Wal, a small town in Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan along the Pak-Afghan border, where the U.S. drones launched a strike on Saturday, which reportedly killed the Taliban leader Mullah Mansoor. Endit