Islamabad, July 8 (DPA) A suspected US missile strike on a Taliban bastion in north-western Pakistan killed at least eight militants Wednesday, an intelligence official said.

Six missiles fired allegedly by US Predator drones at around 1.30 a.m. flattened a hill-top militant hideout near the Karwan Manza village in the restive South Waziristan tribal district near the Afghan border.

'Eight militants have been killed and another five wounded in the strike on the Taliban position,' the official said on condition of anonymity.

All those killed were fighters of the top Pakistani Taliban commander and Al Qaeda facilitator, Baitullah Mehsud.

It was not immediately clear whether there were any foreign militants among the dead.