A botched gold robbery attempt at the Newmont Mining site in Ntotroso, Ahafo Region, resulted in the deaths of three individuals and injured four others. According to reports, a gunfight erupted between police and the robbers on Wednesday, January 8, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Assistant Commissioner of Police Grace Ansah Akrofi stated that the Ghana Police Service successfully restored peace to the Ntotroso community, ensuring security at the mining site during the attempted robbery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following the incident, Inspector General of Police Dr. George Akuffo Dampare instructed the Ahafo Region to mobilize community youths and leaders to monitor the site throughout the night until the situation stabilized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The community expressed surprise at the incident, stating that nothing similar had occurred in Ntotroso before. A special investigation team from Accra has been tasked with gathering information about the incident. Meanwhile, security measures have been increased in the community to maintain peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The police identified the three deceased individuals as Muslims, and their bodies have been released to their families for burial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gold Robbery Attempt at Newmont Mining Site Turns Deadly<\/p>\n
A botched gold robbery attempt at the Newmont Mining site in Ntotroso, Ahafo Region, resulted in the deaths of three individuals and injured four others. According to reports, a gunfight erupted between police and the robbers on Wednesday, January 8, 2025.<\/p>\n
Assistant Commissioner of Police Grace Ansah Akrofi stated that the Ghana Police Service successfully restored peace to the Ntotroso community, ensuring security at the mining site during the attempted robbery.<\/p>\n
Following the incident, Inspector General of Police Dr. George Akuffo Dampare instructed the Ahafo Region to mobilize community youths and leaders to monitor the site throughout the night until the situation stabilized.<\/p>\n
The community expressed surprise at the incident, stating that nothing similar had occurred in Ntotroso before. A special investigation team from Accra has been tasked with gathering information about the incident. Meanwhile, security measures have been increased in the community to maintain peace.<\/p>\n
The police identified the three deceased individuals as Muslims, and their bodies have been released to their families for burial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4362,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions\/4362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}