Team pulls out after 3 die in bus attack
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January 10, 2010, Sunday
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TOGO'S national soccer team pulled out of the African Cup of Nations yesterday after three people were killed when the team bus came under fire going through a violence plagued section of Angola.
Manchester City, the team of top player Emmanuel Adebayor who is also captain of Togo, said the team was withdrawing from the continent-wide tournament.
A goalie for Togo's national soccer team said on French radio the death toll from the attack had risen to three.
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. Agassa said a second team goalie was badly wounded and was transported urgently to South Africa for treatment.
Dr Fraser Lamond of medical assistance provider International SOS said yesterday it had been asked to provide two air ambulances.
But before they landed in Cabinda yesterday morning, one of the patients died. Lamond said that another man was due to arrive at Johannesburg's Milpark hospital yesterday afternoon.
Lamond said that his "condition is serious but stable and he will be going to a trauma facility." Lamond didn't know if the man was a player.
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's bus in a convoy from Congo was 9.6 kilometers over the border in Angola when it came under fire. The bus driver died in the 30-minute ambush.
Manchester City, the team of top player Emmanuel Adebayor who is also captain of Togo, said the team was withdrawing from the continent-wide tournament.
A goalie for Togo's national soccer team said on French radio the death toll from the attack had risen to three.
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. Agassa said a second team goalie was badly wounded and was transported urgently to South Africa for treatment.
Dr Fraser Lamond of medical assistance provider International SOS said yesterday it had been asked to provide two air ambulances.
But before they landed in Cabinda yesterday morning, one of the patients died. Lamond said that another man was due to arrive at Johannesburg's Milpark hospital yesterday afternoon.
Lamond said that his "condition is serious but stable and he will be going to a trauma facility." Lamond didn't know if the man was a player.
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's bus in a convoy from Congo was 9.6 kilometers over the border in Angola when it came under fire. The bus driver died in the 30-minute ambush.
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