Human Rights Defenders Coalition in Malawi call for an investigation into the plane crash that killed the country's vice president

The Malawi government says that Vice President Saulos Chilima will be honored with a state funeral after he was killed along with eight other people in a plane crash. President Lazarus Chakwera had already announced 21 days of national mourning yesterday, when the wreckage of the small military plane carrying Chilima and a former first lady was discovered in a mountainous area in the north of the country. There were no survivors. The government also clarified today that there were nine people on board when the plane crashed, not 10 as initially announced by the president. Tonight Host Yeheyes Wuhib reached out to Lameck Masina VOA reporter in Lilongwe and first asked if any investigating has started regarding the plane crash.