LAHORE: Pakistani officials on Sunday said four extremists, allegedly involved in a
2009 attack on the visiting Sri
Lankan cricket team, have been
killed in a shootout with police.
The officials did **t identify the
militants or their armed group. The
attack on the cricket
team had left
killed six police and two bystanders and wounded six cricket players. The Pakistani Taliban and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an affiliated extremist group had claimed the attack, which was carried out by 10 gunmen.
A counter-terrorism official says the shootout erupted late on Saturday on the edge of Lahore, when other gunmen tried to break the
militants out of police custody. A**ther senior official confirmed the account. Both spoke on condition of a**nymity, fearing retribution.
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