Overview
- Berekum Chelsea’s bus was ambushed on the Goaso–Bibiani road on Sunday as the team returned from a Ghana Premier League match at Samartex in Samreboi.
- Players and staff fled into bushes under gunfire, and Dominic Frimpong, a 20-year-old winger on loan from Aduana Stars, was shot and later died at a hospital.
- The Ghana Football Association said it is working with the Ghana Police Service and will tighten travel security for clubs as investigators search for the attackers.
- Police reported that another victim, 52-year-old George Owusu Afriyie, was robbed of 4,500 cedis during the incident.
- The assault echoes a 2023 attack on Legon Cities’ team bus after a Samartex visit, deepening concerns about the safety of road travel for Ghanaian clubs.