Tribesmen claim US attacked suspected al-Qaida hideout

Tribesmen from a Pakistani mountain village where an airstrike hit a suspected al-Qaida hideout this week today claimed missiles were fired from an American plane and denied the dead were terrorists.

Locals were still digging through the rubble of homes destroyed in Tuesday’s airstrike on Zamzola village in South Waziristan, where Pakistan’s army said its helicopter gunships killed eight suspected foreign militants.