Three confirmed dead in Togo African Cup of Nations attack

Togo fans are worried over deaths

The death toll from a shooting attack on the Togo's team bus at the African Cup of Nations in Angola has risen to three.

 
A goalkeeper for Togo's national soccer team has told French radio that it is confirmed the three are dead.

 
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 Saturday that a second team goalkeeper was badly injured and transported urgently to South Africa for treatment.

 
Local officials said Friday the Angolan bus driver died following the attack and eight others were injured - just days before the start of the African Cup of Nations tournament in the southwest African nation.

 
"Communications chief Stanislas Ocloo and assistant coach Abalo Amnalete died at four o'clock this morning," the CAF's press

official for Togo, Kodjo Samlan, said after arriving in Cabinda with  federation colleagues.

 
Nine players and officials of the squad were reported wounded

Friday when the buses came under fire as they crossed into Cabinda

from the Congo Republic to play in the African Nations Cup.

The attack was claimed by the Front for the Liberation of the

Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC), which has been fighting for decades for

the independence of the oil-rich territory cut off from the rest of

Angola by Democratic Republic of Congo.
FLEC said the team's military escorts were the intended target,

adding that "This operation is only the start of a series of

targeted actions that will continue in all the territory of

Cabinda."