A total of three crew and five passengers died after the aircraft dropped off the radar and went down in a heavily forested area
Ghana’s defence and environment ministers were killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday, the presidency said, hours after the armed forces reported a chopper carrying three crew and five passengers dropped off the radar.
Television station Joy News broadcast cell phone footage from the crash scene showing smouldering wreckage amid a heavily forested area earlier in the day, before it was revealed that ministers Edward Omane Boamah and Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed were among the dead.
Boamah became President John Mahama’s defence minister earlier this year shortly after Mahama’s swearing-in in January.
Muhammed was serving as the minister of environment, science and technology.
