President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika has expressed shock over the sudden deaths of 15 people killed in two separate road accidents in Blantyre on Saturday.

The first accident happened on Saturday, 9th September, 2017, at around 1:30pm at Six Miles on the Robert Mugabe Highway between Mulanje and Limbe involving a minibus and seven people died on the spot.

The second accident happened on the Blantyre-Zalewa Road, in Chileka, at Namikasi Secondary School, on the same day, at around 7:20pm that resulted in the death of 8 people.

In a statement made available to faceofmalawi reporter, Minister of Information and Communications Technology Nicholas Dausi said Mutharika is in grief.

“The President and the First Lady join all Malawians in expressing their condolences to the bereaved families and also wishing those injured a quick recovery.

“The President is assuring the bereaved and affected families that Government will do everything within its means to support them during this difficult time,” reads in part the statement.

Added Dausi: “May our Lord bless and bring comfort to the bereaved and ease the pain of loss.”

Meanwhile government has offered to assist families of the victims.