Malawi’s devout Catholic Vice-President, Saulos Chilima has died in a plane crash.
Vice President Saulos Chilima was on board the Mzuzu International Airport bound plane with nine others (All dead) when it went off the aircraft radar on June 10.
According to the BBC, President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera in a briefing on Tuesday June 11 said the wreck of a plane carrying Malawi’s vice-president has been found with no survivors.
Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine others were flying on a military aircraft within the country on Monday morning when their aircraft disappeared from airport radars.
Soldiers had been searching Chikangawa Forest overnight and into the morning in an effort to find the plane.
In an interview with ACI Africa Tuesday, June 11, before the presidential briefing, the Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM), Fr. Valeriano Mtseka said since the news broke out about the missing aircraft, “Nothing new because the search is still going on.” Fr. Mtseka described the VP as a “devout Catholic.”
Vice President Chilima, 51, was on his way to represent the government at the burial of former government minister Ralph Kasambara, who died four days ago.
Former First Lady Shanil Dzimbiri was also on the flight, which took off from the capital, Lilongwe, on Monday morning.
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