{"id":4087,"date":"2024-08-29T21:29:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T21:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2024-08-29T21:29:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T21:29:33","slug":"investigation-into-knust-final-year-students-death-still-pending-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=4087","title":{"rendered":"Investigation into KNUST final year student&#8217;s death still pending &#8211; Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/image_2024-08-29_092349730-696x673-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/image_2024-08-29_092349730-696x673-1.png 696w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/image_2024-08-29_092349730-696x673-1-300x290.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ghana Police Service is yet to commence an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a final year BSc Agriculture student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident occurred three days after completing his four-year academic journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to relatives, Patrick Mensah and his friends visited an illegal mining site at Manso in the Ashanti region, a day after returning home from school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/image_2024-08-29_092349730-533x261-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/image_2024-08-29_092349730-533x261-1.png 533w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/image_2024-08-29_092349730-533x261-1-300x147.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/knust-final-year-student-dies-shortly-after-writing-last-paper\/\">KNUST final year student dies shortly after writing last paper<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A final-year student at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has tragically passed away just a day after completing his final exams. Patrick Mensah was pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Biotechnology. According to his uncle, Patrick returned home on Monday evening, relieved and excited after writing his last paper. The \u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/knust-final-year-student-dies-shortly-after-writing-last-paper\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, tragedy struck when one of the friends accidentally fell into a deep mining pit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is alleged that without hesitation, Patrick rushed to save his friend\u2019s life, but lost balance and plunged into the pit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite rescue attempts, Patrick could not be saved due to the dangerous nature of the pit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His body was later retrieved, leaving behind heartfelt memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patrick completed his final year examination on Friday, August 23, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was waiting to defend his project work, but left school to visit his parents at Manso where the unfortunate incident occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Police Service is yet to commence an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a final year BSc Agriculture student of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4087","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\/4087","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=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4090,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions\/4090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}