Forty militants, three soldiers killed in Pakistan mosque: army

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Around 40 militants and three soldiers have been killed in a Pakistan army assault Tuesday on a radical mosque in the capital Islamabad, the military said.

"As far as a figure of militants is concerned the information I have from troops carrying out the operation is around 40," chief military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told reporters.

"Three security officials are shaheed (martyred), 15 injured," he added.

The operation at the Red Mosque was still continuing and intermittent gunbattles were still taking place in the compound, Arshad said.