Togo team leaves tournament after deadly ambush (AP)

January 9, 2010 2:58 pm | sports

Angolan police escorts the bus carrying Ghana's soccer team as it leaves the compound where teams are based, in Cabinda, Angola, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010. Togo's national soccer team pulled out of the African Cup of Nations Saturday after three people were killed when the team bus came under fire as it traveled through a section of Angola plagued by separatist violence. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)AP – Hosting the African Cup of Nations was Angola’s chance to show it is recovering from decades of war. But gunmen sprayed bullets at Togo’s national team, killing three people and forcing its withdrawal from the soccer tournament.


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