{"id":625875,"date":"2010-01-09T13:05:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T18:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1041681"},"modified":"2010-01-09T13:05:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T18:05:03","slug":"adebayor-returning-to-britain-after-bus-attack-in-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/625875","title":{"rendered":"Adebayor returning to Britain after bus attack in Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Togo football captain Emmanuel Adebayor is returning from the African Nations Cup after two squad members died after a machine-gun attack on team buses in Angola, his English club said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Adebayor returning home from Angola,&quot; Premier League Manchester City announced in a statement on their website.<\/p>\n<p>The club&#8217;s press office said officials were &quot;in regular contact with Adebayor&quot; but could not say when he was expected in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The Togo assistant coach and the squad spokesman died in Friday&#8217;s attack by hooded gunmen who sprayed the buses with gunfire as they travelled through the restive northern Cabinda enclave, according to an African football official.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was claimed by the separatist Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC), which has been fighting for decades for the independence of the oil-rich territory.<\/p>\n<p>Adebayor told the BBC early Saturday that he would be discussing with his team-mates whether they should stay on for their group matches in Cabinda.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100109\/sp_soccer_afp\/violenceangolatogofblafr2010mancity\" >http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100109&#8230;afr2010mancity<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Togo football captain Emmanuel Adebayor is returning from the African Nations Cup after two squad members died after a machine-gun attack on team buses in Angola, his English club said. &quot;Adebayor returning home from Angola,&quot; Premier League Manchester City announced in a statement on their website. The club&#8217;s press office said officials were &quot;in regular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2COL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}