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MIRANSHAH, Pakistan-Pakistani warplanes on Tuesday pounded militant positions in North Waziristan, as fighting raged for a fourth day in a tribal region known as an al Qaeda and Taliban stronghold, an army spokesman said.There has been intense fighting since Saturday night around the town of Mir Ali, and nearly 200 people had been killed before Tuesday's air strike."Aircraft were used to attack militants positions near Mir Ali this afternoon," military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said.Thousands of families were fleeing the town of 50,000 and outlying villages, making their way on foot, in tractor trailers and cars.Arshad had no details of casualties from Tuesday's air strike, though residents and a security official in North Waziristan put the number of people killed at close to 50.Air strikes earlier destroyed most houses around Essori, a village near Mir Ali where most of the fighting was concentrated."We don't have any place to live," said villager Mohammad Anwar. "We have sent our children to other areas because children are scared that the bombing could start again."The military had put the death toll from the three days of fighting at 150 militants, and 45 soldiers.
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