African Cup of Nations will go ahead"
The Confederation of African Football have condemned Friday's attack on the Togo squad but have indicated the African Nations Cup will go ahead as planned.
The Togo team had just crossed the border from the Democratic Republic of Congo into the Angolan enclave of Cabinda when they came under machine gunfire.
The bus driver was killed while two players were among the injured in the attack, which lasted for around 15 minutes.
Togo captain Emmanuel Adebayor revealed tonight the team would decide at a meeting whether to pull out of the tournament, which is due to start on Sunday, and admitted a lot of the players wanted to leave.
CAF held an emergency meeting later in Friday night and released a statement where they talked about taking "decisions to guarantee the smooth running of the competition".
The statement read: "The Confederation of African Football condemned the attack against the Togolese delegation convoy heading to Cabinda from Congo.
"The Angolan Football Association president, who is also the director general of the Local Organising Committee, Mr Justino Fernandes, informed the CAF Executive Committee that the incident happened 10 kilometres within the Angolan territory.
"The Angolan authority deployed immediately a team down there to asses the exact situation. According to the information provided by the director general, all injured people were taken to a hospital in Cabinda.
"On Saturday morning, 9 January 2010, an important delegation headed by the Angolan Minister on Internal Affairs, Ministers of Youth and Sports, members from the Prime Minister's office as well as a powerful delegation from CAF will be in Cabinda.
"The Angolan Prime Minister will meet on Saturday CAF President Mr Issa Hayatou to take decisions to guarantee the smooth running of the competition.
"The Confederation of African Football is terribly saddened by these events and expresses its total support as well as sympathy to the entire Togolese delegation."
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