Provincial governor, Wahidullah Kalimzai, said the drone attack took place in the Shaigal district of the province, located about 205 kilometers (125 miles) east of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday.
He added that five members of the Pakistan-based Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group were killed in the assault.
On December 29, 2015, a US drone attack on the Alishing district of the eastern province of Laghman left at least two people dead. Sarhadi Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said two local commanders of the Taliban militant group were killed in the airstrike.
The development came a week after three people lost their lives when a US drone targeted Ghani Khel district of Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar. Colonel Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal, a spokesman for the Nangarhar provincial police department, identified the deceased as members of a local militant group.
