Pakistan soldiers killed in capital ambush

PAKISTAN: Gunmen riding a motorbike ambushed a military jeep in Pakistan's capital, unleashing a hail of bullets that killed two soldiers in a brazen daylight raid on Thursday, officials said.

It was the second attack in Islamabad in three days, following a suicide attack that killed five people and with Pakistan battered by violence blamed on Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked extremists leaving more than 185 dead this month.Security forces rushed to the leafy residential district where the ambush took place as the attackers fled on their motorbike, police said.

"Two (soldiers) are dead, including one officer.

There is one wounded, he is an army soldier," Doctor Altaf Hussein, a spokesman for Islamabad's main PIMS Hospital, told AFP.Islamabad, Thursday, AFP