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Summary
The attack on Sri Lankan team last year deprived Pakistan of the privilege to host the Cricket World Cup 2011, also making the local playgrounds await holding of international games.Even after lapse of a year, police is still clueless as neither anyone convicted nor any action has been taken in this regard. In the attack on the SL team a dozen gunmen attacked the team bus with rifles, grenades and pistols, wounding six players, a British coach and a Pakistani umpire and killing seven policemen. Since the attack, two assailants have been arrested, one was shot and killed while one of the facilitators was identified and is in prison and four others are still at large.The attackers ambushed the Sri Lankan teams convoy on Liberty Roundabout on March 3, 2009 and fired AK-47s and rockets and hurled grenades at the teams bus.The attackers fled after a 25-minute crossfire with police. On the day of the attack, 1,500 policemen had been deputed on The Mall in front of the Punjab Assembly, the Governors House and the Chief Ministers Secretariat.
