Murali questions security failings

"Somehow in this incident there were no police with guns on the bus," Muttiah Muralitharan  said. "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."

"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."

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Rate It:

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5