Gunmen attack Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan

At least a dozen men ambushed Sri Lanka's cricket team with rifles, grenades and rocket launchers Tuesday, converging on the squad's convoy as it drove through a traffic circle near an eastern Pakistani stadium.

Seven players, an umpire and a coach were wounded, none with life-threatening injuries, but six policemen and a driver died.

The attackers struck as a convoy carrying the squad and match officials reached a traffic circle 300 yards (meters) from the main sports stadium in the eastern city of Lahore, triggering a 15-minute gunbattle with police guarding the vehicles.

The assault, just ahead of a match, was one of the worst terrorist attacks on a sports team since Palestinian militants killed 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

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While Cricket isn't my sport of choice, attacking a sports team with guns and rockets is so far over the line absurdity would be inadequate a term for it.

The people of Pakistan should not allow this to take place in their country. I am sure if you were to speak with any number of Pakistanis on the street they would not like or want such lunacy on their streets.

Take back your streets!

This message is for anywhere lunatics, gangs, thugs and such try to rear their collective ugly heads.