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Funeral for 8 helicopter crash victims underway

The funeral is strictly a military funeral conducted by the Ghana Armed Forces.

The funeral is in three parts, beginning with Bible and Qur’an recitals, followed by the main service, and ending with the burial.

The pre-burial programme will start at exactly 7:30 am and end at 9:00 am.

Vice President Prof. Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang will be at the event at 8:50 am, while the President is expected at 9:00 am to commence the service.

The three-hour ceremony will feature the reading of biographies of all eight crash victims, tributes from widows, children, government officials, and institutional representatives.

Following the service, the remains of six of the victims will be transported to the military cemetery at Tse Addo for interment, with burial rites jointly overseen by the GAF and the respective churches of the deceased.

Meanwhile, two of the crash victims have already been buried in line with muslim traditions and customs.

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