A US drone strike on Monday destroyed a vehicle in North Waziristan on the Afghan border, killing seven suspected militants, officials said. The attack took place on the outskirts of Mir Ali, some 30 kilometres (20 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town of the district where US officials want Pakistan to launch an offensive against networks fighting in Afghanistan. "A US drone fired two missiles which hit a vehicle. At least seven suspected militants have been killed," one security official in Peshawar told AFP. Another intelligence official in Miranshah said two drones fired four missiles, hitting a van and killing at least seven militants. "I do not know whether there was a high-value target. We received reports that those killed in the van were all foreigners," he said. Monday's attack was the eighth to be reported in Pakistan's tribal areas near the Afghan border since US commandos killed Osama bin Laden in a secret raid in Abbottabad on May 2. The drone strikes are hugely unpopular among the general public, who are deeply opposed to the government's alliance with Washington, and inflame anti-US feeling, which has heightened further after the bin Laden raid. Missile attacks doubled in the area last year, with more than 100 drone strikes killing over 670 people in 2010, compared with 45 strikes that killed 420 in 2009, according to an AFP tally. The Pakistani parliament has called for an end to US drone strikes and said there must be no repeat of the operation that killed bin Laden, despite the fact that President Barack Obama has reserved the right to act again.