In what is being reported as the first ever Christmas Day U.S. drone strike in Pakistan, a suspected U.S. drone on Wednesday fired two missiles at a home in the village of Qutab Khel in North Waziristan, killing four people.

The missiles struck just shy of midnight, and the victims were identified as foreign militants by a Pakistani official. Yet the Pakistan Tribune reports their identities could not be determined because of their “charred” bodies.

“Panic gripped the area following the attack as unmanned aircraft kept flying over the area till wee hours of Thursday morning,” The Pakistan Tribune reports.

U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan have touched off nation-wide anger for their high civilian death rate, shroud of secrecy, and what many call violation of sovereignty and self-determination.