One woman was killed and six members of her family were wounded in a suspected drone strike in the Hasankhel area on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan’s Dawn reported on Wednesday, citing local sources.
All seven were members of the same family and were taken to a hospital following the strike, the newspaper said. A community elder from Hasankhel confirmed to Dawn that the woman who died was the daughter-in-law of a local resident identified as Shirmast.
Two of the wounded, including Shirmast and his 15-year-old son, remained hospitalized at Lady Reading Hospital, while the other injured family members were discharged in the early hours of Wednesday, the report said.
The strike is not the first of its kind in the area. In April, a suspected drone attack struck a mosque in Hasankhel, causing minor damage but no casualties. The latest incident occurred in the Chanduka area, near the boundary between Peshawar and Kohat districts, according to Dawn.
The attack comes amid a sharp escalation of cross-border tensions between Pakistan and the Taliban. On Tuesday night, the Taliban announced it had carried out drone strikes on targets in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces, saying it had struck ISIS centers.
Pakistan confirmed the drones had entered its airspace but said its air defense systems had intercepted and shot down all of them before they could reach their targets.
