Pope Leo XIV expressed his condolences for the helicopter accident in Ghana in which eight people died, including two ministers.
“Pope Leo XIV sends his condolences for the death of the ministers, government officials and all the people who died in the military helicopter accident,” says a telegram Signed by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Vatican, to Mons. Matthew K. Gyamfi, president of the Episcopal Conference of Ghana.
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“Entrusting the souls of the deceased to the mercy of God Almighty and with prayers for those who cry their loss, especially their families, the Holy Father assures the nation its spiritual closeness in these difficult times,” concludes the text released this Thursday by the Vatican press office.
As reported BBCthe Ministers of Defense and Environment of Ghana, along with six other people died when a Z9 military helicopter crashed in the central region of Ashanti.
Defense Minister Edward Omane Boamah, and Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, Ibrahim Metala Muhammed, died in the accident that Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, described as a “national tragedy.”
The Ghanaian army said that investigations have already begun to learn about the causes of the accident.
The president of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, suspended all his activities scheduled for the rest of the week and declared three days of national mourning as of this Thursday, August 7, and ordered that the flags wave halfway.
Other of the deceased are the Deputy National Security Coordinator of Ghana and former Minister of Agriculture, Alhaji Muniru Mohammed; Samuel Sarpong, vice president of the Government Party, the National Democratic Congress; In addition to crew Peter Bafemi Anala, Manin Twum-Sam and Ernest Addo Mensah.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.