This information agency Reuters.
As noted, the soldiers came under sniper fire when they crossed the bridges across the river Agus and approached the commercial center of the city.
At the same time the city is held by about 150-200 militants.
According to Colonel Pendaton Guro, snipers are really professionals in their business, since with each shot someone was killed or wounded.
He also stressed that the attacks in the central part of the island of Mindanao continue for the fourth week.
"The protracted battle reinforces fears in neighboring Indonesia and Malaysia, which have a Muslim majority, that the" Islamic state "can create a regional caliphate," he concluded..
Recall, as reported earlier by URA-Inform, in the city of Maravi in ??the south of the Philippines as of Monday, May 29, during the fighting that took place between government forces and militants supporting the Islamic state, 42 people were killed.