US air strikes have killed at least 20 people including suspected foreign militants close to Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, reports say.
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The strikes were reportedly launched in the evening. There is confusion over reports of a morning strike.
There was no immediate confirmation of the attacks from the US military.
The evening attack killed at least 20 people, unnamed Pakistani security sources and the Dawn News television channel said.
Most of the dead are believed to be foreign militants.
In the morning attack first reported by Reuters news agency, air strikes killed a child and two women in the North Waziristan village of Datta Khel.
However, the agency later quoted a Pakistani military spokesman, Maj-Gen Athar Abbas, as denying there had been any intrusion into Pakistani territory.
Instead, he said, an international operation had been launched against militants on the Afghan side of the border.
(BBC)
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