Six killed in attack in Pakistan capital

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A lone suicide bomber attacked a paramilitary security post in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on Saturday, killing six soldiers, police and a city official said.

"We have reports of six dead," said city official Farasat Ali.

Firing was heard soon after the blast but a senior police official told reporters near the scene that had come from paramilitary soldiers firing in reaction to the blast, not in an exchange with gunmen.

(Reporting by Kamran Haider; Editing by Robert Birsel)