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At least three players in the Sri Lankan cricket team were hurt in a gun attack while being driven to the Lahore cricket stadium in Pakistan on Tuesday, Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge said.
Tharanga Paranavitana and Thilan Samaraweera were taken to hospital after the shooting, Lokuge said.
Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardena was slightly wounded in the foot, his father told a local television station after speaking with him by telephone.
The team bus came under fire as the players headed to the Gaddafi stadium for the third day of the second Test against Pakistan.
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Six Pakistani policemen and two civilians were killed when 12 masked gunmen on rickshaws attacked with guns, grenades and rockets.
The team bus came under fire as the players headed to the stadium for the third day of the second Test against Pakistan.
Thilan Samaraweera was one of those hurt along with Tharanga Paranavitana. Both are in hospital. Samaraweera has a bullet wound to his thigh. Paranavitana has a gash to his chest from shrapnel.
Those wounded with minor shrapnel injuries were skipper Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Chaminda Vaas and Ajantha Mendis.
Samaweera scored back-to-back double centuries in this series, 214 yesterday and 231 in the first Test in Karachi last week.
The assistant coach of the Sri Lankan cricket team, Paul Farbrace from England, was injured by shrapnel.
It was previously reported that Australian Trevor Bayliss sustained minor injuries,but this is not correct.
"The bus came under attack as we were driving to the stadium, the gunmen targeted the wheels of the bus first and then the bus," Jayawardene told Cricinfo.
"We all dived to the floor to take cover. About five players have been injured and also Paul Farbrace [a member of the support staff], but most of the injuries appear to be minor at this stage and caused by debris."
Australian umpires Simon Taufel and Steve Davis were both in the convoy that was fired on, but both were OK, an International Cricket Council spokeswoman said.
"They are both fine and we are in the process of getting both out of Pakistan and back home,'' she said.
Match referee Chris Broad was also fine, however the spokeswoman would not comment on the condition of reserve umpire Ahsan Raza.
CNN reported that he was in a critical condition.
ICC match referee Chris Broad has suggested that someone had advance knowledge of the attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Lahore and held back the Pakistan players' bus to keep them out of danger.
The Briton says he has no evidence of a conspiracy but pointed out that the bus carrying the Pakistan team in Lahore departed on its journey to the Gaddafi stadium five minutes after the Sri Lanka bus.
About a dozen gunmen attacked the Sri Lanka convoy, killing six policemen and a driver. Seven Sri Lanka players were injured.
Broad said that, although the teams travelled at different times in a previous test match, the buses had travelled together on the first two days of the second test in Lahore.
The Sri Lanka team was attacked on its way to play the third day.
"On the first two days both buses left at the same time with escorts," Broad told reporters following his arrival back in Britain.
"On this particular day, the Pakistan bus left five minutes after the Sri Lankan bus. Why?
Broad reiterated his view that the security was too lax.
"At every junction from the hotel through to where we were attacked and all the way to the ground, there were police in light blue uniforms with handguns controlling traffic," Broad said. "How did the terrorists come to the roundabout and how did they start firing and these guys not do anything about it?"
"There were plenty of police there and yet these terrorists came in, did what they had to do and then went again. It is beyond me."