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Saulos Chilima was buried in his village following a state funeral in Lilongwe.
He died along with nine others in a plane crash last week. The plane was on a short flight from Lilongwe to the northern city of Mzuzu when it went missing last Monday morning.
Malawi's President Chakwera has called for an independent investigation into the plane crash.