Just days after their baptisms, two new Christians in the African nation of Ghana were jailed and charged in the death of the man who baptized them.

The tragedy happened in the village of Mensakrom, west of the capital, Accra. Derick Ayensu, an evangelist in the nearby city of Swedru, was visiting a congregation in Mensakrom for Sunday worship.

After the service, the two men asked to be baptized. Ayensu took them to the edge of a river. Recent rainfall had flooded much of Swedru and knocked out bridges in the city. It also made the rivers that flow through the region dangerous.

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