Two soldiers dead, 8 hurt, in Pakistan mosque assault

ISLAMABAD, July 10 (Reuters) Two Pakistani soldiers have been killed and eight wounded in an assault today on a radical mosque compound in the capital where Islamist militants have been holed up for the past week.

''We received 10 casualties, two of them have died,'' said Mutahir Shah, a doctor at Islamabad's main hospital.

The military said it had no information about militant casualties in the assault, which was still going on.

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