Pakistani hero bus driver honored in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's cricket community on Monday honored a Pakistani bus driver as a hero for risking his life to get Sri Lankan cricketers to safety as bullets pierced their vehicle in last month's deadly terror attack in eastern Pakistan."By God's help I did not feel scared at all and never thought of jumping out of the bus to save myself," Mohammad Khalil said through an interpreter at an elaborate ceremony at Sri Lanka Cricket headquarters.

Six police officers and a driver were killed and seven members of the Sri Lanka contingent wounded in Lahore on March 3 when more than a dozen heavily armed gunmen ambushed the team convoy en route to a match against Pakistan.

The attack was among the highest-profile terrorist strikes on a sports team since the 1972 Munich Olympics, when Palestinian militants killed 11 Israeli athletes.