LONDON: Britain condemned the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan Tuesday, saying it was a "grim day for sport" while confirming one Briton was among the injured. "The attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team is shocking and senseless, and today is a grim day for sport," Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Andy Burnham said. The Foreign Office also issued a statement strongly condemning the attack, which took place in Lahore while the side was on its way to a test match.Officials in Sri Lanka said the team's assistant coach, Briton Paul Farbrace, was among seven injured in the attack, which left at least eight people dead."We can confirm that a British national sustained minor injuries but was not hospitalised. We have offered consular assistance," said the Foreign Office.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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