{"id":528317,"date":"2026-04-13T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528317\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:18:09","slug":"ghanas-dominic-frimpong-dies-in-attack-on-berekum-chelsea-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528317\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Dominic Frimpong dies in attack on Berekum Chelsea FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team &#8211; who were on the road after an away game against Samartex in Samreboi &#8211; were ambushed by the men who &#8220;blocked the road to prevent&#8221; their passage, the club added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[The men] started shooting at our bus as the driver tried to reverse,&#8221; it said. &#8220;The players and staff fled into nearby bushes to take cover.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The suspects have yet to be caught as investigations into the incident continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We urge that all necessary measures be taken to ensure justice is served,&#8221; the GFA said, adding it is in contact with relevant authorities and the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The association also said it will be reviewing and strengthening security arrangements for clubs travelling for competitions within Ghana to &#8220;prevent such tragic occurrences in the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Frimpong had joined Berekum Chelsea on loan from Aduana FC in January, according to local media reports. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The forward was set to stay at the team until the end of the premier league season. He had scored two goals in 13 appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team &#8211; who were on the road after an away game against Samartex in Samreboi &#8211; were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-528317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}