{"id":194042,"date":"2025-03-20T07:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-soldier-four-others-shot-dead-in-bawku-nanumba\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T07:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:02:08","slug":"ghana-soldier-four-others-shot-dead-in-bawku-nanumba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-soldier-four-others-shot-dead-in-bawku-nanumba\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Soldier, Four Others Shot Dead in Bawku, Nanumba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">A soldier with the 11 Mechanised Battalion of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) in the Upper East Region, has been shot dead by an unknown gunmen in Bawku, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The victim, a Warrant Officer Class I (WO I), whose name was not disclosed for security reasons, was said to have been shot multiple times before his death at 11am, which occurred between Avengo and Kpalore, where he was stationed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">According to an eyewitness account, the solider was caught in a crossfire as the gunmen, who arrived at the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503190468.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A soldier with the 11 Mechanised Battalion of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) in the Upper East Region, has been shot dead by an unknown gunmen in Bawku, on Monday. The victim, a Warrant Officer Class I (WO I), whose name was not disclosed for security reasons, was said to have been shot multiple times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,32042,8096,4508,4509,50900,257,5352,7761,254],"class_list":["post-194042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bawku","tag-dead","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-nanumba","tag-news","tag-shot","tag-soldier","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}