Captain of Ghana's national football team and nation's top pop star feared dead in jet ski incident

A popular musician, dubbed Ghana’s 50 Cent, is thought to have died in a jet ski accident while on a holiday with footballer Asamoah Gyan.

18:02 08 July 2014

The captain of Ghana’s national football team and one of the country’s top musicians are feared to have died in a ski accident while on a holiday.

Castro, the 32-year-old singer, whose real name in Theophilus Tagoe, reportedly tried to rescue drowning girlfriend Janet Bandu near the Ghanaian coastal town of Ada. He was then reported missing afterwards. The singer was also with Ghanaian striker Gyan and some friends while on a holiday at Aqua Safari Resort on Saturday.

Local news website have quoted one the friends saying: "All of us, including Asamoah Gyan dived in to try and save Janet Bandu and Castro.

"We all tried to help, but we couldn't. We were very far away from them."

It has been reported that fishermen in the area found a body but so far, it has not been identified as the missing rapper or his girlfriend.