Lahore, Sept 10 : The chief of Al Qaeda’s Pakistan unit, Abu Haris is learnt to have been killed in missile strikes by the US in the Miranshah tribal area on Monday night. A total of 26 persons were killed in the attack.

According to sources close to a Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani, four guards and two wives of the commander were also killed in the attack. While four missiles hit a madrassa run by Haqqani, three landed in populated areas.

It could not be known if Haqqani was present at the seminary at the time of the strike.