Sri Lanka cricket team bus attacked in Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD, March 3 | Tue Mar 3, 2009 4:22am GMT

ISLAMABAD, March 3 (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen attacked the bus taking the Sri Lankan cricket squad and its police escort to a cricket stadium in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore on Tuesday, according to witnesses and cricket officials.

Television channels reported that four people were killed, including at least three policemen, while a Pakistani cricket official said two members of the Sri Lankan squad were among the wounded.

(Writing by Augustine Anthony; Editing by David Fox)

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