ASIA: Militants shoot down US drone in Pakistan: officials
08 Mar 2009 12:16 AM
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, March 7 AFP - Taliban militants on Saturday shot down a pilotless US drone in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said.
Residents and a local police official said two drones were flying low over a village in the South Waziristan tribal district when one of them was hit by militant fire.
"We heard the firing by Taliban and then a drone fell down," tribal police official Israr Khan told AFP.
Another security official said the drone crashed in a forest near a Pakistani border post.
"Apparently a drone has crashed in the nearby forest, we are searching for its wreckage," a security official told AFP.
