{"id":18740,"date":"2026-04-13T11:01:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=18740"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:01:04","slug":"ghanaian-footballer-dominic-frimpong-killed-in-armed-attack-on-team-bus-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=18740","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian footballer Dominic Frimpong killed in armed attack on team bus | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>Dominic Frimpong was killed after the Ghana Premier League team\u2019s bus was attacked by armed robbers near Samreboi.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 13 Apr 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">13 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Ghanaian \u200cfootballer Dominic Frimpong has been killed during an armed \u2060robbery on \u2060his club side Berekum Chelsea\u2019s team bus as they returned from an away match in the Ghana Premier League, the country\u2019s football association (GFA) said.<\/p>\n<p>The attack on Sunday happened between Goaso and Bibiani as the team were heading home from \u2060the game against Samartex in Samreboi in the south of the country.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 4 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>\u201cOn our way back to Berekum from Samreboi, our team bus was attacked by a group of armed robbers who \u200cblocked the road to prevent our passage,\u201d the club said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMasked men wielding guns and assault rifles started shooting at our bus as the driver tried to reverse. The players and staff fled into nearby bushes to take cover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian FA later \u2060said that 20-year-old Frimpong had died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe GFA has received with profound shock and deep sorrow the tragic news of the passing of Dominic Frimpong of Berekum Chelsea Football \u2060Club,\u201d the FA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis tragic incident is not only a huge loss \u2060to Berekum Chelsea but also to \u2060Ghana football as a whole. Dominic was a promising young talent whose dedication and passion for the game embodied the spirit of our league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It said \u200cit would strengthen security arrangements for clubs travelling for domestic competitions.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar incident in 2023, Legon Cities\u2019 team bus \u200cwas \u200cattacked following a game at Samartex, though no one was reported injured.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Frimpong was killed after the Ghana Premier League team\u2019s bus was attacked by armed robbers near Samreboi. Published On 13 Apr 202613 Apr 2026 Ghanaian \u200cfootballer Dominic Frimpong has been killed during an armed \u2060robbery on \u2060his club side Berekum Chelsea\u2019s team bus as they returned from an away match in the Ghana Premier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}