Footballer dies after robbers attack team bus

NEW DELHI: A Ghanaian Premier League footballer, Dominic Frimpong, has died aft equipped robbers attacked his squad portion they were returning from an distant lucifer connected Sunday, according to the Ghana Football Association.

The incidental shocked the country’s shot assemblage and near his nine and teammates devastated.The club, Berekum Chelsea FC, said successful a connection that "masked men wielding guns and battle rifles" fired connected the squad autobus and forced the players to instrumentality screen successful the bushes.

The onslaught reportedly happened astir 10:30 p.m. section clip on the Ahyiresu-Kwame Dwumor Sreso roadworthy successful the Nyinahin District of Ghana’s Ashanti Region.During the chaos, Dominic Frimpong was deed by gunfire. Police said helium was rushed to infirmary but aboriginal died portion receiving treatment. The convulsive robbery besides affected others, including a 52-year-old victim. "Another victim, George Owusu Afriyie, 52, was besides robbed of 4,500.00 cedis ($408)," the constabulary said successful a statement.Authorities confirmed the incidental and described it arsenic a transgression onslaught that led to nonaccomplishment of beingness and theft.

The Ghana Football Association called the lawsuit "tragic" and a "huge nonaccomplishment to Berekum Chelsea but besides to Ghana shot arsenic a whole."Frimpong, conscionable 20 years old, was seen arsenic a rising endowment successful Ghanaian football. "Dominic was a promising young endowment whose dedication and passionateness for the crippled embodied the tone of our league," it said successful a statement.He had joined Berekum Chelsea FC connected indebtedness from Aduana Stars FC earlier this twelvemonth and had already played 13 matches, scoring 2 goals. His abrupt decease has near the section shot assemblage mourning a young vocation chopped abbreviated successful a convulsive and unexpected tragedy.