President Lazarus Chekwara of Malawi has declared a 21-day national mourning in honour of Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine other persons who died in a plane crash. The President directed that all flags be flown at half-mast throughout the mourning period.
The body of Chilima and his co-passengers were found in the wreckage of the ill-fated plane on Tuesday, June 11, after the plane crashed earlier on Monday. The deceased had left the country's capital Lilongwe on Monday on a condolence visit to the family of a former cabinet minister, Ralph Kasambara, only for their own families to now become homes for condolences.
Chilima died in that ghastly air crash on Monday after he had just returned from an official visit to South Korea the day before. He was in his second term as vice president after serving from 2014-2019 under former President Peter Mutharika. Fully known as Dr Saulos Klaus Chilima, the late vice president was a 51-year-old economist and politician who had earlier served as the Minister of Economic Planning and Development, as well as Head of Public Sector Reforms.
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