Angola Sentences Togo Football Team Attacker

Angola Sentences Togo Football Team Attacker

An Angolan court has sentenced a man to 24 years in jail for the deadly attack on Togo 's football team in January.

Joao Antonio Puati's lawyer said he was found guilty for committing armed rebellion.

The bus carrying the team was attacked in the province of Cabinda as it arrived for the Africa Cup of Nations.

Two Togolese officials were killed in the thirty minute gun attack which a faction of the Front for the Liberation of the State of Cabinda said it carried out.

Puati had pleaded not guilty at the opening of his trial and denied having links to the separatist group which said it was behind the shooting.

Another man, Daniel Simbai, was acquitted of the same charges.

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