ISLAMABAD- 20 suicide bombers were killed in the drone strike includingMullah Fazlullah’s son in Afghanistan’s kunar area. The suicide bomberswere preparing to launch massive attacks inside Pakistan.

*The son of Mullah Fazlullah, chief of Pakistan’s Tehreek-i-Taliban, and 19other insurgents were killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan onWednesday morning.*

TTP has confirmed the drone attack on its facility in eastern Kunarprovince and the killing of Abdullah, son of Mullah Fazlullah.

The report said that in a text message sent to the media in Bajaur Agencyon Wednesday evening, the insurgent group said that 20 suicide bombers werekilled, and six others wounded in the drone attack.

They said that a drone fired missiles at Ghazi Camp run by TTP in Kunarnear the Pakistani border, Dawn News reported adding that the TTP commanderof Bajaur chapter, Gul Mohammad, who was head of Ghazi Camp, was alsokilled in the attack.

Another commander named Ustad Yaseen, who trained suicide bombers, was alsoamong the dead.

A Pakistani intelligence official said the drone struck on the day thetraining of the bombers was about to be completed.