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Sri Lankan cricket team returns home after Lahore attack

Sri Lanka's cricket team returned home early Wednesday, one day after narrowly escaping a terrorist attack in Lahore, Pakistan with the team captain paying tribute to the bus driver for saving their lives.
The shaken team was welcomed at Colombo airport amid tight security by anxious relatives and Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge.

Skipper Mahela Jayawardene, speaking to journalists on arrival at Bandaranaike International Airport Wednesday morning said 'if the driver had not driven off it would have been difficult for us to survive. Fortunately he was not injured and he managed to drive us away.'
The players had been on their way to open the third day of play of their second test match in the eastern Pakistani city when they came under attack by a number of gunmen. Jayawardene said that incident could have taken place in any part of the world, but refrained from commenting whether there were any security lapses.
Sri Lanka's public reacted with shock to the incident, many offering prayers for saving the team, expressing sympathy to the families of the six Pakistani police officers killed in the incident. The Sri Lankan team was touring Pakistan after India refused play there due to security reasons following the November terrorist attack in Mumbai.

Gunmen attack Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan

A dozen men attacked Sri Lanka's cricket team with rifles, grenades and rocket launchers Tuesday ahead of a match in Pakistan, wounding seven players and a coach from Britain in a brazen assault on South Asia's most beloved sport. Six policemen and a civilian were killed.
An assistant coach was also wounded, but the players' and coach's injuries were not believed to be life-threatening. The assailants ambushed the convoy carrying the squad and match officials at a traffic circle close to the main sports stadium in the eastern city of Lahore, triggering a 15-minute gunbattle with police guarding the vehicles.
None of the attackers were killed or captured at the scene, city police chief Haji Habibur Rehman said. Authorities did not speculate on the identities of the attackers or their motives. The attack reinforced perceptions that nuclear-armed Pakistan is veering out of control and will end any hopes of international cricket teams — or any sports teams — playing in the country for months, if not years. Even before the incident, most cricket teams choose not to tour the country because of security concerns.

PAK v SL, 2nd Test, Lahore: Test called off after attack

The second cricket Test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka was called off Tuesday after a deadly gun and grenade attack on the tourists' bus in Lahore, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced.
"This test match has been officially called off," PCB chairman Ijaz Butt told reporters in Pakistan's eastern city Lahore. Pakistani authorities were providing helicopters to evacuate the Sri Lankan team, which announced they would return home immediately.
"We are providing helicopters to evacuate the team from the ground to an air base from where they will leave," Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province of which Lahore is the capital, told reporters. "We are going to catch these terrorists one way or the other," he said.

PAK v SL, 2nd Test, Lahore: Pakistan 110-1 drew with Sri Lanka 606