All killed on plane carrying Malawi VP

BLANTYRE, Malawi — Malawi's vice-president and nine others were killed in a plane crash, the country's president said on Tuesday.

The wreckage of the military plane carrying Vice-President Saulos Chilima was located in a mountainous area in the north of the country after a search that lasted more than a day. There were no survivors, Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera said in a live address on state television.

Hundreds of soldiers, police officers and forest rangers had been searching for the plane that also carried a former first lady after it went missing on Monday morning while making the 45-minute flight from the southern African nation's capital Lilongwe to the city of Mzuzu, around 370 kilometers to the north.