{"id":1850,"date":"2025-04-15T18:32:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T18:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2025-04-15T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T18:33:00","slug":"er-15-year-old-bece-candidate-slashed-to-death-over-ghc10-at-adukrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/er-15-year-old-bece-candidate-slashed-to-death-over-ghc10-at-adukrom\/","title":{"rendered":"ER: 15-year-old BECE candidate slashed to death over GHC10 at Adukrom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A 15-year-old boy who is a Basic Education Certificate Candidate has been slashed to death by a 17-year-old with machete to death at Akwapem Adukrom in the Eastern Region.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two childhood good friends were engaged an altercation over GHC10. 00 which escalated into violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An eyewitness said \u201d The suspect slapped me and demanded why I had slapped a member of his gang days ago over GHC10.00. I told my friend who is now deceased what transpired. He demanded we look for the suspect and retaliate. The suspect came with cutlass amid sounds from a nearby taxi and slashed my friend on the shoulder. I had to run for my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital declared the victim dead on arrival as blood oozed from his body. He had cuts on his head and shoulders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents are in a state of shock describing the incident among the youthful groups as unwarranted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Families of the minor are currently morning their loss and demanding justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Police have arrested three suspects- owner of the machete, the suspect, and an accomplice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigation and prosecution process has since begun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sub><em>Source:3news.com<\/em><\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old boy who is a Basic Education Certificate Candidate has been slashed to death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Knife.jpg",612,408,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Knife-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Knife-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Knife.jpg",612,408,false],"large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Knife.jpg",612,408,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Knife.jpg",612,408,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Knife.jpg",612,408,false],"shareaholic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Knife.jpg",612,408,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Knife.jpg",612,408,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Knife.jpg",612,408,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Knife-590x408.jpg",590,408,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Babia Mubaric"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General News<\/a>","tag_info":"General News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1852,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/1852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}