Islamabad, August 17(ANI): The overall death toll in the Central Intelligence Agency-operated drone attacks in Pakistan's tribal areas has risen to around 475 since January this year.
Tuesday's drone strike in North Waziristan pushed up the total number of predator attacks to 55 during the same time span.
According to the available data, a total of four US drone attacks have taken place during the first two weeks of August, in which as many as thirty-two people have been killed, The News reports.
According to Conflict Monitoring Centre (CMC), an Islamabad-based independent research centre, a total of fifty-one drone strikes took place from January to July this year, killing 443 persons.
During the year 2010, the CIA had carried out 132 attacks inside Pakistan, and only nine of them were in South Waziristan.
The CMC research said that every second day (1.77) of the last quarter of 2010 saw a drone attack in Pakistan, and that each attack killed 6 people on an average.
Killings in drone attacks constitute over one fourth (26.48 %) of the total casualties in armed conflicts in Pakistan. As such, every fourth person killed in violence in Pakistan was targeted in a drone attack. (ANI)
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