6 cricketers and the assistant coach were injured while the security guards were among the 8 people killed in the first ever terror attack in the history of the sports, forcing Sri Lanka to immediately call off this tour.

Kumar Sangakkara, Ajantha Mendis, Thilan Samaraweera, Tharanga Paranavitana, Suranga Lakmal and Thilina Thushara were injured in this attack which was executed at the busy Liberty Chowk traffic roundabout, located less than a kilometre from Gaddafi Stadium, at 9 am. Paul Farbrace (Assistant Coach) also sustained minor injuries in the brazen attack, carried out by a dozen masked terrorists armed with rifles, grenades and rocket-launchers.

The armed gunmen attacked the bus ferrying Sri Lankan cricket team to Gaddafi Stadium to resume play on the third day of the second and final test match with Pakistan. Fires were exchanged for 30-minutes and Eight people, most of them police guards accompanying the team were killed.

The Sri Lankan team was soon airlifted from Gaddafi Stadium to the Lahore airport by a Pakistan Air Force helicopter on their way back home to Colombo.

Injured players Samaraweera and Paranavitana, who received bullet injuries, were rushed to the military hospital. They are out of danger and stable.

Reports said reserve umpire Ahsan Raza, who was travelling in a separate car, was seriously injured and had been operated on in a local hospital.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. The Sri Lankan team called off its tour after the attack.