U.S. drone missile strike kills three

A missile believed fired from a drone U.S. aircraft has killed three people in Pakistan's tribal areas, an official said Saturday.

The missile struck a village in the North Waziristan district of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Muhammad Nasim, a local political official, told CNN. The FATA is the home base of Taliban Islamic militants operating on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

No other information on the missile strike was immediately available, the broadcaster said.