Report: U.S. Strike Injures 11 In Pakistan

Eleven people including nine Pakistani soldiers were injured during a U.S. air strike near Wana in the South Waziristan tribal area near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, local officials told CBS News.

A local tribal official told CBS News that U.S. jets carried out the assault in the Angoor Adda area Thursday night. Nine Pakistani troops and two civilians were injured while four vehicles had been destroyed in the air strike.

The injured were transported by helicopter to Banu hospital.

A Taliban spokesman said Thursday that if U.S. spy aircraft do not stop abusing Pakistani air space in tribal areas, the Taliban will respond inside Pakistan.

A local tribal elder told CBS News that missiles also hit Musa Neka and Baghar villages but there were no casualties there. He said U.S. spy planes and choppers regularly patrol the areas and such attacks are not a surprise.

A local tribal security officer said he was not sure if the strike was an air bombing or artillery shelling but it hit a check post over the Pakistan-Afghan border. He said nine Pakistani soldiers suffered heavy injuries.

Last month in a similar attack, dozens of Pakistani solders were killed and a U.S. defense minister later apologized for that attack.