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3 Togo Soccer team Members dead after attack, Togo withdraw from Africa Cup, 2010

Posted on 09. Jan, 2010 by Diego in Football

3 Togo Soccer team Members dead after attack, Togo withdraw from Africa Cup, 2010

3 Togo Soccer team members have been dead after Friday‘s attack. Goalie Kossi Agassa, who plays for French club Istres, told France-Info radio by phone that a Togo assistant coach and a spokesperson have also died. Togo have pulled out of the Africa Cup of Nations as the death toll following the attack on their team bus in Angola rose to three, according to reports. Organisers insist the tournament will go ahead and are stepping up security.

Gunmen in an area in Angola plagued by separatist violence used machine guns to open fire Friday on a bus carrying Togo’s soccer team to a tournament in this southwest African country. Angola’s Information Minister Manuel Rabelais said on Friday that eight team members and one Angolan were injured. In Togo, the government said the Angolan driver was killed. Togo were due to play Ghana in their opening match in the northern Angola province of Cabinda, where the attack took place, on Monday.

3 Togo Soccer team Members dead after attack, Togo withdraw from Africa Cup, 2010

3 Togo Soccer team Members dead after attack,

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