A jet crashed Sunday near Freeport, on the island of Grand Bahama, killing all
nine people on board, authorities said.
The aircraft hit a crane
at the Freeport Ship Yard and crashed into a nearby "junk site," police
said.
No U.S. agencies are
involved, and the Royal Bahamas Police Force is handling the investigation, a
police spokesman said.
Police have not released
the victims' identities, but Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie said pastor
Myles Munroe and his wife Ruth were among the victims.
Myles Munroe was the
senior pastor of Bahamas Faith Ministries International Fellowship, that group's website says. Ruth served as
co-pastor. Continue....
The two were friends of
Andrew Young, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, who was also
scheduled to arrive in Freeport.
"Ambassador Young
expresses his deep sadness over the tragic death of his friends Dr. Myles and
Mrs. Ruth Munroe. He offers condolences to the Munroe family and the families of
the other souls who lost their lives as a result of this shocking plane crash,"
the Andrew Young Foundation said in a statement.
Young is scheduled to
speak at a conference starting Monday in Freeport.
The Global Leadership
Forum will continue this week, according to Munroe's organization.
"On behalf of Myles
Munroe International and ITWLA. We would like to inform you that the Global
Leadership Forum will continue," Myles Munroe International posted on its
Facebook page. "This is what Dr. Munroe would have wanted."
The ITWLA is International Third World Leaders
Association, which was founded by Munroe.
No comments:
Post a Comment