By Mark Ogagan
Disaster struck in Ghana on Wednesday when the country’s Minister of Defence, Edward Kofi Omane Boamah (Pictured), was killed in a fatal military helicopter crash alongside seven other top government officials.
The crash killed all eight people aboard, including the West African country’s defence and environment ministers and other top officials, the government 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.
The wreckage was later found in the Adansi area of Ashanti.
Among the victims was the vice-chair of the National Democratic Congress ruling party, a top national security adviser, and crew members.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known, and the military said an investigation was under way.
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