FOUR MILITANTS BEHIND 2009 ATTACK ON SRI LANKAN CRICKETERS KILLED
LAHORE, PAKISTAN Pakistani officials said Sunday that four Islamic extremists allegedly involved in a 2009 attack on the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team were killed in a shootout with police.
The attack on the cricket team killed six police and two bystanders, and wounded six cricket players. The Pakistani Taliban and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an affiliated extremist group, claimed the attack, which was carried out by 10 gunmen.
The shootout erupted late Saturday on the edge of Lahore when other gunmen tried to break the militants out of police custody.