Murali questions security failings

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Match referee Chris Broad, who was caught up in the incident in a separate bus, has voiced his anger at the Pakistani security forces and Muralitharan has echoed those sentiments, questioning why the players were not better protected.

"Somehow in this incident there were no police with guns on the bus," the 36-year-old off-spinner told Australia's Radio 5AA. "If someone was there with a gun we would have had a chance of defending ourselves."

He added: "Normally all the buses go and we have four or five escorts.

"We left at 8.30am, and Younus Khan (with the Pakistan team) at 8.35am.

"We divided into two, maybe they knew the information for the right time. They tried to shoot the driver. Then they were shooting both sides of the bus and they counted 39 holes."

Muralitharan revealed he had thought Tharanga Paranavitana, who along with Thilan Samaraweera was one of the more seriously wounded players, would die from his injuries.

"There were gun shots going on and the bullets were passing us," Muralitharan said.

"I saw Paranavitana was bleeding in the chest. I thought he was gone, actually. Thilan Samaraweera was bleeding, Kumar Sangakkara was bleeding from the shoulder. There was blood everywhere. It was frightening."

Samaraweera was taken to a private hospital in Colombo for surgery on his knee after arriving back in Sri Lanka on Wednesday with the rest of the team.