LUANDA, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- The African Nations Cup will go ahead as planned despite Friday's deadly gun attack on the Togo team buses which killed the driver and injured nine, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) said.

"Our great concern is for the players, that's our key priority, but the championship goes ahead," Souleymane Habuba, CAF's communications director, insisted.

Two days before the start of the tournament, gunmen fired on the Togo team as they crossed the border from Congo-Brazzaville to the province of Cabinda.

The driver was killed and nine injured in the attack claimed by the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC).

Habuba said CAF's vice-president had set off from the Angolan capital of Luanda to Cabinda to find out at first hand what had occurred.

"We need to know all the facts about what's happening on the ground, we haven't got them all yet. We can't give a full reaction from reports that we have got from the media."

According to Habuba, Togo, in contrast to the other 15 teams, had chosen to travel by road rather than flying.

"CAF's regulations are quite clear, teams are required to travel by air, not road," said Habuba.

"We had a meeting of all the teams this morning, or at least almost all of them - Togo didn't show up, and it was only later on Friday afternoon that we heard via information from the media that they had been the victims of an attack."

Virgilio Santos of the local organising committee said "we asked all the delegations to tell us how and when they were coming, as well as the players' passport numbers. Togo was the only team not to reply and they didn't tell us they were coming by road."

Habuba said CAF would make further comment on the shooting once they had more details.