Malawi vice president confirmed dead after wreckage of missing plane found

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Malawi's Vice President Saulos Chilima has been killed in a plane crash, the president said on Tuesday, after searchers located the wreckage of the airplane.

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00:00 Malawi's Vice President Saulos Chilema has been confirmed dead along with nine others

00:05 after their missing military plane was located by armed forces.

00:11 President Lazarus Chakwera announced in a live address that the plane had been completely

00:14 destroyed and everyone on board was killed on impact.

00:19 The jet had left the capital on Monday but failed to make its scheduled landing around

00:23 45 minutes earlier.

00:25 Air traffic control had told it to turn around before landing because of bad weather and

00:29 poor visibility.

00:30 [ Silence ]

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