{"id":31672,"date":"2026-04-13T11:28:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31672"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:28:52","slug":"ghanaian-player-frimpong-killed-in-attack-on-berekum-chelsea-team-bus","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ghanaian-player-frimpong-killed-in-attack-on-berekum-chelsea-team-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian player Frimpong killed in attack on Berekum Chelsea team bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Berekum Chelsea winger Dominic Frimpong has been killed during an armed robbery on his side\u2019s team bus as \u200bthey returned from an away match in the Ghana \u200cPremier League on Sunday, the Ghana&#8217;s football association (GFA) said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The incident occurred on the Goaso\u2013Bibiani road as the team were heading home from the \u200bgame against Samartex in Samreboi in the south of \u200bthe country.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;On our way back to Berekum from \u2060Samreboi our team bus was attacked by a group of \u200barmed robbers who blocked the road to prevent our passage,&#8221; \u200bthe club said in a statement on Monday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Masked men welding guns and assault rifles started shooting at our bus as the driver tried to \u200breverse. The players and staff fled into nearby bushes \u200bto take cover.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>GFA later said that 20-year-old Frimpong had died \u200cin \u2060the incident.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The GFA has received with profound shock and deep sorrow the tragic news of the passing of Dominic Frimpong of Berekum Chelsea Football Club,&#8221; they said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;This tragic \u200bincident is \u200bnot only a \u2060huge loss to Berekum Chelsea but also to Ghana football as a whole. Dominic was \u200ba promising young talent whose dedication and passion \u200bfor \u2060the game embodied the spirit of our league.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It said it would strengthen security arrangements for clubs travelling for domestic competitions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In a \u2060similar \u200bincident in 2023, Legon Cities&#8217; team \u200bbus was attacked following a game at Samartex though no one was reported \u200binjured.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31673,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-31672","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Berekum Chelsea winger Dominic Frimpong","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31674,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31672\/revisions\/31674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}