ISLAMABAD: A suspected US drone aircraft fired a missile at a house in the militancy-plagued Pakistani region of North Waziristan on the Afghan border on Saturday, killing two people, Reuters reported security agency officials as saying.

US forces in Afghanistan have carried out at least 27 air strikes by unmanned aircraft on militant targets in northwest Pakistan this year, according to a Reuters tally, more than half of them since the beginning of September. ‘A missile was fired at a house owned by one Taj Mohammad, and we have reports of two men killed,’ said an intelligence agency official.