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Fifteen Pakistani soldiers had been killed in the fighting since Thursday but, despite the losses, they were closing in on the militants' positions, said a government official based in the border region.
"At least 15 soldiers have been killed since yesterday," said the official, who declined to be identified.
"There's ferocious resistance but a house-to-house search has started on the outskirts of Shin Warsak," he said.
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"We are closing in on them. Their defense seems to be dying down," one senior security official, Brigadier Mehmood Shah, told Reuters.
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