[ 2011-11-27 ]

The Etoile Filante team

Six Togo players dead, 28 injured
Togo's government says at least six top-flight
soccer players have been killed and another 28
people are critically injured after a bus carrying
them plunged into a ravine and caught fire.

In a statement read on national television, the
government said Togo president Faure Gnassingbe
had ordered that the injured be taken to a
military hospital in Lome, the capital.

The accident happened on Saturday near the city of
Atakpame, about 99 miles north of Lome, as the
Etoile Filante team was on its way to Sokode for
Sunday's league game against Semassi.

A tire is believed to have burst, causing the bus
to flip over and plunge down a ravine. Some of the
victims reportedly burnt to death.

Source - Associated Press

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