SRI Lanka's World Cup cricketers returned to an elaborate welcome home today after being stranded in London after Tamil Tiger rebel air raids in Colombo.
The team was received at the VIP lounge of the Bandaranaike International airport where Buddhist monks, Hindu and Catholic priests and Muslim clerics conducted services to bless them.
Officials said they returned on Qatar Airlines after Emirates, on which they were originally booked, pulled out of Colombo after Sunday's Tamil Tiger attacks near the airport.
Sri Lanka Cricket, which had organised elaborate plans to welcome the cricketers who reached the final in the Caribbean, said another welcome ceremony had been arranged in the city, 35 kilometres away.
Emirates and Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific suspended their flights to Sri Lanka after Sunday's air raids.
The guerrillas used two light aircraft to bomb two fuel depots near Colombo after crossing Colombo's airspace.
Sri Lanka lost to Australia in Saturday's final in Barbados by 53 runs.
Agence France-Presse
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