ISLAMABAD, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The Pakistani army said on Sunday that five militants and one security personnel were killed in a clash in Punjab province.
The security forces conducted a special intelligence-based operation in Dera Ghazi Khan district in the early morning and killed five terrorists.
During the exchange of fire, an army soldier Kamran was also killed while Deputy Superintendent of the paramilitary force Haroon was injured and evacuated to a military hospital in the region.
The operation, which was part of the major anti-terror offensive codenamed Radd-ul-Fasaad or "reject terror", is still in progress, a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations said.
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