Ghana's Defense Minister, Edward Omane Boamah, died in a military helicopter crash on Wednesday (August 6) along with four other officials and three airforce crew, the government said. Syakir Jasnee reports.

The government of Ghana says that military helicopter has crashed and killed all eight people aboard including the country’s defense and environmental ministers

Ghana has declared three days of national mourning after two government ministers were killed in a military helicopter crash on Wednesday.