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Plane carrying Malawi’s VP missing: govt

Tuesday, Jun 11, 2024

LILONGWE, Malawi: A military aircraft carrying Malawi’s vice president Saulos Chilima

has been reported missing after it failed to make a landing Monday morning, the government said.

“All efforts by aviation authorities to make contact

with the aircraft since it went off the radar have failed thus

far,” the government said in a statement.

The plane, which took off just after 9:00 am (0700 GMT),

was carrying 51-year-old Chilima and nine others.

The group was travelling from the capital Lilongwe

over 370 kilometres (230 miles) to the city of Mzuzu for

the funeral of a former cabinet minister.

President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered regional and

national forces to conduct an “immediate search and rescue operation to locate the

whereabouts of the aircraft,” the statement said. —AFP