ATTACK BRINGS TERROR TO QUIET LAHORE NEIGHBORHOOD

08.12.2009 [16:23]
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Baku, 8 December (AZERTAC). Blood, broken glass and a pack of playing cards lay on the road near Pakistan`s main cricket stadium on Tuesday after gunmen brought terror to the city of Lahore with an attack on Sri Lanka`s cricket team, Reuters reports.

Pakistan is well used to militant violence but the country`s historic cultural center of Lahore in the east, while it has seen its share of bomb attacks, feels much safer than violence-plagued areas in the northwest, near the Afghan border.

That sense of security was shattered on Tuesday when gunmen ambushed the Sri Lankan team`s bus and their police escort as they went round a roundabout, about 500 meters (yards) from the 60,000-seater Gaddafi Stadium.

Five policemen and a bus driver were killed in the attack by the gunmen wielding AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, and six members of the Sri Lankan team and their British assistant coach were wounded.

Police said they suspected some of the attackers arrived at the scene in the white car. One officer spread alarm when he said he thought there was a bomb in it and ordered reporters back.

ATTACK BRINGS TERROR TO QUIET LAHORE NEIGHBORHOOD

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