Football tournament on despite attack on Togo team

The African Cup of Nations tournament will go on despite an attack on the Togo national soccer team that killed one Angolan and injured eight team members, an Angolan official said today.

Angola’s sports minister Goncalves Muandumba told reporters that the games would continue.

Gunmen in an area in Angola plagued by separatist violence used machine guns to open fire on Friday on a bus carrying Togo’s soccer team.

Angola’s information minister Manuel Rabelais said eight team members and one Angolan were injured. In Togo, the government said the driver was killed.

Some players said they wanted to pull out of the African Cup of Nations tournament following the violence.