Togo's football team bus is attacked in Angola, Time de Futebol do Togo sofre atentado em Angola.

A bus carrying the Togo national football team, including the Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor, was attacked by gunmen as it travelled to the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament in Angola yesterday. The driver was killed and two players were among nine injured in the ambush, which a separatist rebel group claimed to have carried out. The attack, two days before the start of the tournament, last night cast a shadow over Africas most-followed sporting event, from which Togo may now withdraw. Attackers raked the bus with machinegun fire as it crossed into Cabinda, a disputed oil-rich Angolan territory within the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. Adebayor said last night that Togo could leave the tournament, telling the BBC: If the security is not sure then we will be leaving tomorrow. I dont think they will be ready to give their life. A team-mate, Thomas Dossevi, named the injured players as Kodjovi Obilale, reserve goalkeeper from the French amateur side GSI Pontivy, and Serge Akakpo, a defender from the Romanian team Vaslui. We had just crossed the border five minutes before — we were surrounded by police buses, one in front of us another behind, he said. Everything was fine and then there was a powerful burst of gunfire. Everyone threw themselves under the seats and tried to protect themselves but some couldnt escape the bullets. Another player said he believed that the number of injuries could have been much worse had the gunmen not initially fired on a bus carrying the teams baggage. The separatist Front for the Liberation of Enclave of Cabinda said that it had carried out the attack. Togo are scheduled to play their first Group B match against Ghana on Monday in Cabinda. A Togo midfielder, Alaixys Romao, called for the team to pull out of the 16-nation tournament, saying: Weve got players wounded [and] members of staff. We just want to go back home. This was an act of terrorism that is being dealt with as we speak, said Antonio Bento Bembe, the Angolan minister responsible for Cabinda. There was controversy last night over the fact that the Togo team had travelled into Angola by land, despite the Confederation of African Football stipulating that teams should fly. It insisted that the tournament would still go ahead despite the attack. Click here to watch the Sky News report of the incident The legacy of civil war — Despite still suffering from the legacy that results from decades of civil war, the last bout of which only ended in 2002, Angola has generally been stable recently. The country has been led by the authoritarian Government of José Eduardo dos Santos since 1979. — A postwar reconstruction boom has been aided by a burgeoning oil industry, although wealth generated has been slow to trickle down to the majority of citizens — While the Foreign Office advises against all but essential travel to some provinces, it describes the terrorism threat as low — Cabinda province, which borders the Democ