Intelligence officials in Pakistan say "suspected U.S. missiles have killed four people in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border," the Associated Press reports. According to the wire service, "the strike Friday was the sixth attack in eight days, an unusually intense bombardment."

Also today, in Karachi, Pakistan, "a blast flattened a house being used by militants ... with six people killed when explosives apparently detonated accidentally," The DAWN Media Group reports.

The New York Times puts the death toll from that blast at seven. It adds that "after the explosion, amid the rubble inside the house, police and rescue workers found a large cache of weapons that included suicide vests, automatic rifles and grenades."