Kabul, January 16 (RHC)-- Afghan authorities say at least eleven people have lost their lives in a new U.S. assassination drone strike in Afghanistan’s troubled eastern province of Nangarhar.

An spokesman for the Afghan provincial governor said the aerial attack took place Friday in the Achin district, located 120 kilometers east of the capital, Kabul. A commander of the Takfiri Daesh militant group, identified as Hafiz Saeed, and 10 others were reportedly killed in the airstrike.

The CIA spy agency regularly uses drones for airstrikes and spying missions in Afghanistan as well as Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border.

Washington has also been conducting targeted killings through remotely-controlled armed drones in Somalia and Yemen.