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Blantyre, Malawi (Reuters) – A aircraft carrying Malawian Vice President Sholos Klaus Chilima and 9 different folks has gone lacking, the southern African nation’s president mentioned on Monday.
Malawi’s Workplace of the President and Cupboard mentioned Chilima, 51, left the capital Lilongwe on a navy plane at 9:17 am (0717 GMT). The assertion mentioned search and rescue operations had been ongoing.
“All efforts by aviation authorities to contact the plane because it fell off radar have failed,” the corporate mentioned in a press release.
The aircraft was scheduled to land at Mzuzu Airport at 10:02am, the assertion mentioned.
Malawi Data Minister Moses Kunkuyu instructed state broadcaster MBC that the search had been intensified.
Chilima, seen as a possible candidate in subsequent 12 months’s presidential election, was arrested in 2022 on corruption fees.
Nevertheless, a Malawi court docket dropped corruption fees in opposition to him final month after the prosecutor common issued a discover to discontinue the case. Chilima denies any wrongdoing.
