Ghana ministers among eight killed in helicopter crash
Edward Omane Boamah, right, Ghana’s defence minister who was killed in the helicopter crash along with several other top officials, pictured with UN official Anthony Banbury in 2014. Picture: Christian Thompson/AP
The crash of a military helicopter in Ghana killed all eight people aboard, including the West African country’s defence and environment ministers and other top officials, the government has said.
Ghana’s military said the helicopter took off in the morning from the capital Accra and was heading north west into the interior towards the gold-mining area of Obuasi in the Ashanti region when it went off the radar.
