According to the local Urdu TV channel ARY, the latest strike was launched on December 27 afternoon, during which two missiles were fired at a vehicle suspected of carrying militants in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan, leaving 15 people killed.

Prior to this, the US drones fired four missiles at two suspected vehicles in the same area, killing 6 people on board.

Local media reports said that there were four to eight drones hovering over the area before the strikes were launched.

On December 26 afternoon, there were reports that the US drones were seen flying over North Waziristan, but no strikes were reported.

These two strikes bring to ten times the total number of strikes launched by US drones since December. Up to the minute, at least 90 people have been killed in December strikes.

Not long ago, dozens of innocent people who lost their legs, arms, eyesight in US drone strikes staged a protest in front of the parliament building in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, demanding the stop of the US drone strikes in their hometowns located in the country's northwest tribal areas which border Afghanistan.