(CNN) -- The assistant coach of Togo's national soccer team is among the victims of Friday's machine-gun attack on a bus carrying the squad to a tournament in Angola, the country's official news agency reported Saturday. As many as three people were killed and nine injured in the strike, which prompted the team to decide Saturday to pull out of the Africa Cup of Nations tourney. Angola's official ANGOP news agency reported that assistant coach Hamelet Abulo and a Togolese journalist died Saturday. There were conflicting reports about the driver of the bus. Fraser Lamond -- regional medical director of SOS International, a group that transports injured people to hospitals -- said the driver was among the dead, but Togo government officials indicated he was still alive.
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NEW: Angola news agency: Togo assistant coach Hamelet Abulo, Togolese journalist dead
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Togo team pulls out of Cup of Nations, according captain Emmanuel Adebayor
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Togo team bus was shot at by rebel fighters on way to tournament in Angola
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African football body says tournament will go ahead despite the attack
The tournament -- one of the world's biggest -- is @placeholder's first major sporting event since a 2002 peace deal brought the southern African country's decades-old civil war to an end.