The military aircraft conveying Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima, which went missing on Monday, has been found.
It was reported that the military plane carrying the VP and nine others, including the former First Lady, Shanil Dzimbiri, failed to make a landing on Monday morning.
The VP and the nine others were to attend the funeral of a prominent Malawian lawyer, former Attorney General and Justice Minister Ralph Kasambala, in Mzuzu.
President Lazarus Chakwera had ordered regional and national forces to conduct an immediate search and rescue operation to locate the whereabouts of the missing aircraft.
However, it was gathered that the Dornier 228 military plane was found in the Chikangawa Forest in the in the early hours of Tuesday.
All passengers on board were reportedly dead.