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Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera on Tuesday confirmed that Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima died in a plane crash after the aircraft the Vice President was aboard disappeared on Monday.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports President Chakwera confirmed that the aircraft Vice President Chilima and nine others were in was found near a hill in the Chikangawa forest.
“The search and rescue team has found the aircraft near a hill in the Chikangawa forest, and they have found it completely destroyed with no survivors as all passengers on board were killed on impact,” Chakwera said.
Photos of the crashed aircraft have surfaced on social media as reactions have started pouring in on the death of the Malawian Vice President.
The aircraft, a Donier 228, belongs to the Malawi Defence Force. It failed to make its scheduled landing at Mzuzu Airport in northern Malawi at 10:02 a.m. (0802 GMT) on Monday.
The aircraft returned due to bad weather, heading to Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe before it went off the radar.
See photos of the crashed aircraft below:
TNG reports the vice president was traveling to the funeral of the country’s former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara, who was found dead at a lodge in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, on Friday.
The former Attorney General and Minister of Justice was buried on Monday at his home village in Nkhata Bay, a few kilometers from Mzuzu Airport.