The helicopter had taken off from Accra, the capital, en route to a mining conference when it went “off the radar,” the armed forces said.

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

Ghana held the final day of national mourning on Saturday (August 9) for Defense Minister Edward Omane Boamah and Environment Minister Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, who died in a military helicopter crash earlier this week along with six others.

Ghana President John Mahama has promised a full investigation into a helicopter crash that killed two government ministers and six others.

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

Ghana’s defense and environment ministers are among eight people killed after a military helicopter crashed in the southern Ashanti region on Wednesday, according to the chief of staff to the Ghanian president.

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 crash of a military helicopter in Ghana on Wednesday killed all eight people aboard including the West African country's defence and environment ministers and other top officials, the government said.

The flight data and cockpit voice recorders have been retrieved from the site of the crash which killed two ministers.

Ghana is in mourning after a devastating helicopter crash in the Adansi region killed the country’s defense and environment ministers, along with three other passengers and three Ghana Armed Forces crew members.