Vanuatu’s President Baldwin Lonsdale dies - media reports


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  • Saturday, 17 Jun 2017

File Photo - Vanuatu's President Baldwin Lonsdale, standing under an umbrella, listens to a question during an interview with Reuters, after attending the third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR), in Tokyo, March 16, 2015. REUTERS/Issei Kato

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Vanuatu’s President Reverend Baldwin Lonsdale has died suddenly at the age 67, the Vanuatu Daily Post newspaper reported on Saturday.

Lonsdale, an Anglican priest who was appointed to the largely ceremonial role in September 2014, died in Port Villa, the Pacific Island nation’s capital, early on Saturday, the newspaper said.

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