DHAKA: A senior member of Al-Qaeda and three other suspected militants were killed in Pakistan on Sunday when a US drone attacked a house they were in.

Pakistani military officials and Taliban said, reports The Straits Times.

The attack came a day after Pakistani forces killed a major Al-Qaeda leader, Adnan el-Shukrijumah.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation had offered US$5 million for his capture in connection with a plot to bomb the New York subway system.

Four Pakistani military officials said a senior member of Al-Qaeda was among the dead in the strike by a missile-firing drone on Sunday.

They identified him as Omar Farooq and said he operated in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Three Taliban fighters said Farooq, 38 years old, was from Karachi, where he had been a religious teacher before joining Al-Qaeda after the 2001 attack on New York.

BDST: 1754 HRS, DEC 07, 2014