Late on Saturday night in Africa, early Saturday evening in the Americas, terrible news came out that six Togolese professional footballers were killed in a bus crash. The team involved was Etoile Filante, who was traveling away to Semassi for a league fixture on Sunday. In addition to the six players who have been killed, another 28 people have been critically injured.
↵In an absolutely terrible accident, the bus carrying the team went off the road into a ravine and caught fire. Reportedly, the cause of the accident was a blown tire that caused the driver to lose control, which subsequently caused the bus to flip over and go off the road, into the ravine.
↵Faure Gnassingbe, the president of Togo, had the injured taken to a military hospital in the capital city of Lome. Lome is nearly 100 miles from the site of the accident.
↵News doesn't get much more terrible than this.