{"id":444766,"date":"2017-12-07T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/07\/footballer-luther-boateng-commits-suicide-by-hanging\/"},"modified":"2017-12-07T20:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:00:28","slug":"footballer-luther-boateng-commits-suicide-by-hanging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/07\/footballer-luther-boateng-commits-suicide-by-hanging\/","title":{"rendered":"Footballer Luther Boateng commits suicide by hanging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Thursday,  7 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-07<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/31792925.295.jpg\" alt=\"Suicide 1\" title=\"Suicide 1\" width=\"295\" height=\"204\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>File photo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813921649\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813921649\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512676828_648_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former Eleven Wonders and Bofoakwa Tano players, Luther Boateng, has committed suicide by hanging himself in his bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>Boateng is suspected to have taken his own life on Thursday afternoon, December 7, 2017 Ghanaweb.com has learnt.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the news, Eric Boateng who is the Communication Director of Eleven Wonders- the deceased\u2019s former club- said the incident happened around 13:00 GMT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI received a call from the police station that our former player has hanged himself to death.<\/p>\n<p>We are all saddened by the news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuther played for us but he left to join Bofoakwa Tano so as I am speaking to you now he is not our player, but as a player who served us, we are aggrieved too,\u201d the Communications Director said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Details pertaining to his death remain sketchy but Ghanaweb.com will continue to update the public in the coming days as Ghana Police Service is currently investigating the case.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 56 updated by: 58 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Thursday, 7 December 2017 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2017-12-07 File photo Former Eleven Wonders and Bofoakwa Tano players, Luther Boateng, has committed suicide by hanging himself in his bedroom. Boateng is suspected to have taken his own life on Thursday afternoon, December 7, 2017 Ghanaweb.com has learnt. Confirming the news, Eric Boateng who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":409023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Footballer Luther Boateng commits suicide by hanging - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\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.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/07\/footballer-luther-boateng-commits-suicide-by-hanging\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Footballer Luther Boateng commits suicide by hanging - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sports News of Thursday, 7 December 2017 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2017-12-07 File photo Former Eleven Wonders and Bofoakwa Tano players, Luther Boateng, has committed suicide by hanging himself in his bedroom. 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