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Monrovia \u2014 Several senior Ghanaian government officials have been killed in a\u00a0helicopter crash, including Defense Minister Edward Omane Boamah and Environment Minister Alhaji Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed, the government announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
In a statemen<\/a>t, the presidency described the incident as a “national tragedy” and ordered flags across the country to be flown at half-mast in honor of the victims.<\/p>\n The crash occurred in Ghana’s Ashanti Region, according to Ghanaian media<\/a>.<\/p>\n Although the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Monrovia \u2014 Several senior Ghanaian government officials have been killed in a\u00a0helicopter crash, including Defense Minister Edward Omane Boamah and Environment Minister Alhaji Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed, the government announced on Wednesday. In a statement, the presidency described the incident as a “national tragedy” and ordered flags across the country to be flown at half-mast in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671113:1b22612e8d07564da5fa1cb92db3df52:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7750,4508,4509,9510,6427,11103,7500,257,6651,254],"class_list":["post-204147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crash","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanaian","tag-government","tag-helicopter","tag-kills","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671113:1b22612e8d07564da5fa1cb92db3df52:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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