US EditionAircraft carrying Malawi vice president missing, presidency says
- Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera's office confirmed unsuccessful attempts to contact an aircraft missing from radar, prompting a search operation and the cancellation of Chakwera's trip to the Bahamas.
- The identities of others onboard the aircraft remain undisclosed.
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Malawis vicepresident Saulos Chilima har omkommit tillsammans med nio andra personer i en flygolycka, bekräftar landets president Lazarus Chakwera. – Planet har hittats och jag är djupt ledsen och beklagar att behöva informera er alla om att det har visat sig vara en fruktansvärd tragedi, säger Chakwera i ett tv-sänt tal. Militärflygplanet försv...
Saulos Chilima, who before his political career held high positions in multinationals such as Coca-Cola and Unilever, has been in office since 2014. A plane carrying the vice-president of Malawi, Saulos Chilima, and nine other people may have crashed into a forest in the north of the country, said the commander of the Defense Forces, Paul Valentino Phiri. World: 12-year-old Britons convicted of murdering a young man Read more: Russian convicted …
Airplane carrying Malawi vice president may have crashed in forest, defence force says
BLANTYRE, Malawi (Reuters) – An airplane carrying Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima may have crashed in the Chikangawa Forest, but it has not yet been found, a senior military official said on Tuesday. Malawi Defence Force Commander Paul Valentino Phiri added that search and rescue operations had been hampered by thick forest and foggy weather affecting ground visibility. (Reporting by Frank Phiri in Blantyre; Writing by Tannur A…
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