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Pakistani police have arrested "some suspects" in connection with the attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team.
Six police officers and a driver were killed and seven players were wounded in the assault, exposing Pakistan's inability to prevent terrorist attacks.
Lahore police chief Haji Habibur Rehman said that authorities had detained the suspects. He gave few details but indicated that none of those detained were the gunmen.
Up to 14 heavily armed and well-trained assailants sprayed the Sri Lankan bus with bullets and fired a rocket and a grenade as it travelled to a match against Pakistan in the eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday.
A special flight has carried the Sri Lanka team - including Thilan Samaraweera and Tharanga Paranavitana, who had been treated in hospital for bullet wounds - home, where the exhausted-looking players had an emotional reunion with their families.
Captain Mahela Jayawardene, who was cut on the foot in the attack, said: "I'm very happy that I could see my family, and come back to Sri Lanka in one piece. Every breath I take I'm glad that I can take it without a problem."
Besides the six police officers, a driver of a vehicle in the convoy was also killed. Seven Sri Lankan players, a Pakistani umpire and the team's British assistant coach, Paul Farbace, were wounded.
Sri Lankan foreign minister Rohitha Bogollagama has flown to Pakistan to discuss the incident.
The ambush bore many similarities to last year's three-day hostage drama in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai.
Working in pairs, the attackers in Lahore carried walkie-talkies and backpacks stuffed with water, dried fruit and other high-energy food - a sign they anticipated a protracted siege and might have been planning to take the players hostage.
