{"id":11183,"date":"2025-01-20T21:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T21:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=11183"},"modified":"2025-01-20T21:22:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T21:22:59","slug":"bodies-of-miners-killed-in-obuasi-military-clash-returned-to-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=11183","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bodies of Miners Killed in Obuasi Military Clash Returned to Families&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/obuasi-696x348-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/obuasi-696x348-1.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/obuasi-696x348-1-300x150.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bereaved families of nine local miners who died during a violent confrontation with military officers at Anglogold Obuasi Gold Mine have gathered at the Obuasi Government Hospital to take delivery of the bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hospital authorities are finalising autopsy on the bodies before they are released to police for subsequent release to the families for the necessary rites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hospital authorities have confirmed a total of nine deaths, with eight injured persons sent to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There has been a heavy deployment of military officers at all entry and exit points of the mines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public and private schools in Obuasi, however, remain closed as authorities of the Ghana Education Service continue to monitor the security situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghanaian travel experiences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident occurred late on Saturday, January 18, 2025, around 11:00 PM, when a group of approximately 60 illegal miners breached the security fence and attempted to access the Deep Decline area of the mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The miners were reportedly armed with locally manufactured rifles, pump-action guns, knives, axes, gas cylinders, and other tools, and opened fire on the military personnel when confronted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In self-defence, the soldiers returned fire, resulting in the fatalities with other illegal miners seriously injured. The remaining individuals fled the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One soldier sustained injuries after being hit by pellets from a pump-action gun but has since received treatment. The soldiers retrieved six pump-action BB cartridges at the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bereaved families of nine local miners who died during a violent confrontation with military officers at Anglogold Obuasi Gold Mine have gathered at the Obuasi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11185,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11183\/revisions\/11185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}