Pakistani sources say Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the leader of the group that took over Isalmabad’s Red Mosque last Tuesday, has been killed in the heavy fighting that ensued at the Lal Masjid compound when troops stormed the mosque. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said Ghazi died in the basement of a school attached to the mosque where a gun battle took place. At least 50 of those resisting and eight soldiers died in the fighting. Fighting was continuing some 13 hours after Pakistani troops stormed the mosque. The student insurgents were armed with sophisticated weapons, including rockets and automatic rifles. Soldiers are trying to avoid killing women and children believed to have been trapped inside or held as hostages.