Dear blogger ;
Yesterday reports tell of 12 gunmen armed with heavy weapons strafing the Sri Lankan team bus with bullets as it drove to the Gadaffi stadium in Lahore ( Pakistan ). 6 police officers and 2 civilians are killed during the ambush. Several team members & coaches are also injured.
"We note with dismay and regret the events of this morning in Lahore and we condemn this attack without reservation," International Cricket Council chief executive Haroon Lorgat said.
SEE VIDEO WITNESS FROM BBC HERE.
Here is some testimony from witness & peoples actually involved in this tragic terrorist attack :
1. From Sportinglife.com : Englishman Paul Farbrace, the current Sri Lanka assistant coach: “People have talked about grenades, rocket-launchers and all sorts but I have to say I wasn’t aware of too much because I was lying on the floor of the coach and just hoping to god I wasn’t going to be struck.”
2. From Google : “It was terrible. The van driver died in front of us. I am lost for words,” stunned cricket umpire Steve Davis said after gunmen turned an upmarket Pakistani square into a battleground.
3. From UK Yahoo : "There were 12 masked gunmen,” Habib-ur Rehman ( chief of Police ) told reporters, adding that police battled against the assailants for about 25 minutes. “They appeared to be well-trained terrorists. They came on rickshaws. They were armed with rockets, hand grenades, kalashnikovs.”
4. From Telegraph.co.uk : Former England cricketer Dominic Cork ( now work as a commentator of Pakistan TV - ready to reporting the match ) , who has vowed never to return to Pakistan.
" We left the hotel probably about five minutes before the Sri Lanka team and we arrived at the ground ready to do our commentary for this series."
“We heard two quite loud explosions and then gunfire, but in no way did we believe it was going to be anything to do with us and the cricket team."
“The next thing we knew was the Sri Lanka team were coming to the ground, we witnessed the coach with quite a lot of bullet holes and also players who were quite injured and shocked
“At one point we saw the medical staff screaming and shouting in a bit of a state, calling for ambulances, it was a shocking experience to be involved in and one that I, as an ex-international cricketer would never believe would ever happen.”
THIS ACT OF TERRORISM MUST END AT ANY COST. SEE VIDEO WITNESS FROM BBC HERE.
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