{"id":230340,"date":"2026-04-14T03:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-berekum-chelsea-player-dies-in-highway-robbery-attack-near-ahyiresu-ghana-police-confirms\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T03:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:02:38","slug":"ghana-berekum-chelsea-player-dies-in-highway-robbery-attack-near-ahyiresu-ghana-police-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-berekum-chelsea-player-dies-in-highway-robbery-attack-near-ahyiresu-ghana-police-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Berekum Chelsea Player Dies in Highway Robbery Attack Near Ahyiresu, Ghana Police Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">A player of Berekum Chelsea has died following a highway robbery attack near Ahyiresu in the Ashanti Region, the Ghana Police Service has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Ashanti Regional Police Command, in a press release issued on April 13, 2026, indicated that the incident occurred on Sunday night along the Ahyiresu to Kwame Dwumor Sreso road in the Nyinahin District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">According to the Police, a VIP bus carrying about 30 players and officials of Berekum Chelsea was travelling from Samreboi to Berekum when it was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604130655.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 player of Berekum Chelsea has died following a highway robbery attack near Ahyiresu in the Ashanti Region, the Ghana Police Service has confirmed. The Ashanti Regional Police Command, in a press release issued on April 13, 2026, indicated that the incident occurred on Sunday night along the Ahyiresu to Kwame Dwumor Sreso road in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230341,"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":[258,256,54153,1398,21569,8746,6824,6868,4508,4509,9419,257,7460,662,1460,254],"class_list":["post-230340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahyiresu","tag-attack","tag-berekum","tag-chelsea","tag-confirms","tag-dies","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-highway","tag-news","tag-player","tag-police","tag-robbery","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\/230340","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=230340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}