Former Lancashire cricketer Dominic Cork has said he will never return to Pakistan after being caught up in the bloody attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team.

Masked gunmen armed with rifles and rocket launchers attacked the team bus near Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, wounding at least two players and killing five police officers.

Cork was working as a commentator for Pakistan TV and met the wounded Sri Lankan players as they waited to be airlifted out.

After seeing their injuries in the aftermath of the attack, he insisted international cricket should not be played in the country again.

He said: "Some of them have wounds, but I think most of them are superficial wounds.

"I have spoken to (Kumar) Sangakkarra, he has a shrapnel wound in his right shoulder.

"I won't be coming back here while I'm still living, there is no chance. I don't think international cricket should return to this country."

Cork also revealed that English umpire Chris Broad, father of England bowler Stuart Broad, was spattered with blood after the attack on the bus as his vehicle - travelling behind the team coach - was also attacked.

It is as yet unclear who was behind the assault, but it appeared to have been carefully co-ordinated and local police have described it as a "terrorist attack".

Lahore police chief Haji Habibur Rehman said his officers - five of whom "sacrificed their lives to protect the Sri Lankan team" - are hunting down the attackers who managed to flee.

A Sri Lankan foreign ministry official said two players - Thilan Samaraweera and Tharanga Paranavitana - were taken to hospital, while three more players were slightly injured and the head coach, Australian Trevor Bayliss, also received minor injuries.

A driver of one of the vehicles taking the Sri Lankan players to the stadium has reported seeing a man firing a rocket towards their van, and then someone hurled a grenade, but the weapons missed the vehicle.