Four Ghanaian ministerial students killed in bus crash

KUMASI, Ghana — Baptists in Ghana are mourning the deaths of four ministerial students killed Dec. 11 in a bus crash while on their way to a classmate’s wedding.

Twelve more passengers were injured — two critically — when the bus owned by Ghana Baptist University College crashed into a stalled truck loaded with teak on a road between the school’s main campus in Kumasi and Ghana’s capital and largest city, Accra.

An online news service in Ghana reported that officials at the college confirmed that three students died at the scene and a fourth died later at a hospital.

Acting Register Ayim Nayko Amanfo identified the dead as Felix Owusu Ansah of Christ Baptist Church, Kumasi; George Boafo Nyamson of Miracle Baptist Church, Ghana’s Western Region; Andrews Dorwunah, of Sunyani; and Francis Owusu Adjei of First Baptist Church, Tema.

All four were studying toward the bachelor of theology degree at the university’s school of theology and ministry.

Ghana Baptist University College is one of the country’s newest universities.

Sponsored by the Ghana Baptist Convention, the school opened in 2006 alongside the Ghana Baptist Theological Seminary in Abuakwa.

The university later added two other campuses in the former headquarters of the Ghana Baptist Convention in Kumasi and Accra.