{"id":54844,"date":"2023-09-22T15:56:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/?p=54844"},"modified":"2023-09-22T14:43:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T14:43:28","slug":"nine-feared-dead-as-gunmen-ambush-passengers-on-pusiga-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/nine-feared-dead-as-gunmen-ambush-passengers-on-pusiga-highway","title":{"rendered":"Nine feared dead as gunmen ambush passengers on Pusiga highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span><b>At least nine passengers are feared dead after the vehicle they were travelling in on the Pusiga road in the Upper East Region was attacked by some unknown gunmen. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what the motive of the masked gunmen was but many are attributing the attack to the insecurity in the Bawku municipality.<\/p>\n<p>The police quickly mounted a search for the heavily-built men. They were escorting the passenger bus Thursday dawn.<\/p>\n<p>About nine who sustained various degrees of injury are said to be receiving treatment at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\">Ghana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. At least nine passengers are feared dead after the vehicle they were travelling in on the Pusiga road in the Upper East Region was attacked by some unknown gunmen. It is unclear what the motive of the masked gunmen was but many are attributing the attack to the insecurity in the Bawku [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":54843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[5092,5096,429],"class_list":["post-54844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ghana","tag-ghana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nine feared dead as gunmen ambush passengers on Pusiga highway - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At least nine passengers are feared dead after the vehicle they were travelling in on the Pusiga road in the Upper Ea ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/nine-feared-dead-as-gunmen-ambush-passengers-on-pusiga-highway\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nine feared dead as gunmen ambush passengers on Pusiga highway\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At least nine passengers are feared dead after the vehicle they were travelling in on the Pusiga road in the Upper Ea ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/nine-feared-dead-as-gunmen-ambush-passengers-on-pusiga-highway\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-22T15:56:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2023\/09\/sm_1695381007.791924.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/nine-feared-dead-as-gunmen-ambush-passengers-on-pusiga-highway#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/nine-feared-dead-as-gunmen-ambush-passengers-on-pusiga-highway\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nine feared dead as gunmen ambush passengers on Pusiga highway\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-22T15:56:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/nine-feared-dead-as-gunmen-ambush-passengers-on-pusiga-highway\"},\"wordCount\":110,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/nine-feared-dead-as-gunmen-ambush-passengers-on-pusiga-highway#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2023\/09\/sm_1695381007.791924.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Ghana\",\"ghana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/nine-feared-dead-as-gunmen-ambush-passengers-on-pusiga-highway#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/nine-feared-dead-as-gunmen-ambush-passengers-on-pusiga-highway\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/nine-feared-dead-as-gunmen-ambush-passengers-on-pusiga-highway\",\"name\":\"Nine feared dead as gunmen ambush passengers on Pusiga highway - 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