The body of the eighth victim of last week’s fatal Lukoil helicopter crash off the coast of Takoradi has reportedly been found.
After lengthy search efforts to locate his body, Walter Koblah Agortimevor, a drilling mud engineer, is believed to have been found washed ashore. Yesterday evening, residents of Axim in the Nzema East Municipality of the region reported of seeing a lifeless body of a man in a live jacket washed ashore.
Agortimevor was part of an eight-member crew visiting a new rig, which had arrived in the country to begin work for Lukoil. The other passengers were immediately accounted for, the two pilots and a passenger were confirmed dead upon discovery of the crash, while three others were rescued and were recently released from hospital. One more passenger still remains in hospital.
Details of what caused the crash are still unknown and an investigation is ongoing.