Ghana’s Defence Minister, Edward Omane Boamah and Environment Minister Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed were among eight victims of the crash in the southern Ashanti region of the country on Wednesday, August 6.
The Ghanaian military said the helicopter took off in the morning from the capital, Accra, and was heading northwest into the interior toward the gold-mining area of Obuasi in the Ashanti region when it went off the radar. The wreckage was later found in the Adansi area of Ashanti.
Also among the victims were Alhaji Mohammad Muniru Limuna, deputy national security coordinator and former minister of agriculture, and Samuel Sarpong, vice chairman of Mahama’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) party.
The charred remains of the two Ghanaian ministers and six others who perished in the military K9 helicopter crash were later recovered and removed from the scene in sacks.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known, and the military said an investigation was underway.
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