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Pakistan stunned by Lahore attack
Tue Mar 3, 2009 11:33pm EST
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police hunted on Wednesday for gunmen who mounted the bold attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Lahore and officials scrambled to figure out who was behind it.
The attack that killed eight people, six of them Pakistani police, plunged Pakistan into a "state of war," Rehman Malik, the prime minister's interior adviser, said.
"Be patient, we will flush all these terrorists out of the country," he added.
Six members of the Sri Lankan team and a British coach were wounded in the daylight attack as their bus approached the cricket stadium. None was so seriously hurt they had to be left behind when the squad departed for Colombo on Tuesday night.
The Sri Lanka cricketers were reunited with their families early on Wednesday. "It's great to be back in Sri Lanka with our families and loved ones," Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene told Reuters after the team's arrival home.
Five players and assistant coach Paul Farbrace were sent to Nawaloka hospital in central Colombo for checks on their injuries.
In New Zealand, cricket officials said they expect to cancel this year's scheduled tour of Pakistan and play the series in a neutral venue in the wake of the attack.
"We are not going. I think that's pretty clear. I don't see any international team will be going to Pakistan in the foreseeable future," New Zealand Cricket chief executive Justin Vaughan told local radio on Wednesday.
Shortly after, Vaughan released a statement partly backtracking, saying no official decision had yet been made.
Vaughan said the tour was unlikely to go ahead but New Zealand officials needed to consult with the Pakistan Cricket Board and international cricket officials.
Separately New Zealand Football announced cancellation of the Indonesian leg of its national team's upcoming tour of Southeeast Asia> It said the decision was over security concerns but unrelated to the Pakistan cricket attack.
Pakistan has reeled under a wave of bomb and gun attacks in recent years, mostly carried out by Islamist militants linked to the Taliban or al Qaeda, but arch nationalists would relish a link being found between rival India and the Lahore attack.
The incident had echoes of an attack on the Indian city of Mumbai last November in which around 170 people were killed and which led to the Indian cricket team cancelling its planned tour of Pakistan, and a Sri Lankan team taking its place.
The group blamed by India for the Mumbai attacks, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) came from Pakistan's Punjab province whose capital is Lahore.
The police chief in Punjab province announced some arrests, without saying if any gunmen were among those picked up. Continued...
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