Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) Limited has condemned continued attacks on its employees, especially those assigned to work at night in Northern and Central region districts, over blood-sucking suspicion. In a statement, Escom public relations manager, Innocent Chitosi, cited an incident which happened on May 1 at Kasitu near Dwangwa in Nkhotakota District, where […]
Malawi Police have arrested 15 suspected rumour mongers over blood suckers myth in Nkhata Bay. Police in the district say the suspects are said to have damaged and stole property worth millions at Mulungu Samana Restaurant at Chintheche Trading Centre over blood sucking myths. On April 1, 2020, the police said, the suspects Alick Opalako […]
Malawi Police say rumours that some people are going around sucking people’s blood in some parts of the Central Region are false as there is no evidence to substantiate these allegations. Central Region Acting Commissioner of Police, Evalister Chisale said on Tuesday in Nkhotakota during a stakeholders meeting organised to find a lasting solution to […]
A 20-year-old student is in police custody in Dowa for spreading fake news that he was blood sucked by the secret cult. Dowa police spokesperson Gladson M’bumpha has identified the student as Oscar Mwale. “He went around telling people that he was blood sucked by some unknown people but after interrogation, it turned out that […]
Acting Commissioner of Police for Central Region Headquarters, Evalista Chisale has quashed rumours of bloodsuckers which are making rounds in some of the districts in the country as vigilante groups continue to people claiming to be protecting communities from the cult. Chisale said the rumours are myths since there was no reported case of a […]
Officials from the National Statistics Office (NSO) have put on hold a survey following attacks over blood suckers myths. NSO spokesperson Kingsley Manda has confirmed that the biological and behavioural survey has been suspended until the issue of the blood suckers dies out. “The survey involves collection of blood samples in some districts. With the […]
Malawi government has on Wednesday handed over bodies of two Mozambicans killed by angry people in Karonga on suspicion that they were blood suckers, to Maputo. Paulo Sebastiao, a Mozambican official travelled to Karonga to receive the two bodies on behalf of his government. The two, and another person who escaped, were on transit to […]
United Nations officials have asked authorities in the country to act with speed in ending blood suckers killings. The UN condemnation of the killings come at a time the country has registered close to 12 myth driven killings. In a statement made available to Nyasa Times, Maria Jose Torres, UN Resident Coordinator for Malawi has […]
A civil society organisation the Church and Society of Livingstonia Synod of CCAP has called for the swift intervention of the State in the killings of people suspected to be blood suckers. Church and Society executive director Moses Mkandawire said both the police and the Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldiers need to swiftly intervene to save lives of innocent […]
An angry mob in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga has killed two Mozambicans who were in transit to Tanzania on a business trip on suspicion that they were bloodsuckers. Karonga police station officer-in-charge Sam Nkhwazi said the incident happened on Saturday night at Pusi Trading Centre in the district where unidentified people mounted an […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) youths in the north under the banner of Friends of Atupele Muluzi on Sunday attacked the Livingstonia Synod of Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) leadership for being silent on lynch mobs who continue to attack people suspected of being bloodsuckers. Police spokesman in the country’s Northern region, Superintendent Peter Kalaya, […]
Chiefs Council chairperson Paramount Kyungu has advised people to desist from killing people or destroying property of people suspected to be blood suckers. The country has in the past days experienced unprecedented attacks on people blamed to be blood suckers, people who allegedly kill other people by sucking their blood for witchcraft purposes. The powerful […]
Malawi Police in Mzimba have warned people in the district against taking laws into their hands following the death of a suspected bloodsucker. In an interview on Tuesday, Mzimba Officer in Charge, Senior Superintendent David Kumwenda said life of an innocent person was lost Saturday at Champhira in the district after the angry community tortured […]
An Angry mob at Mchinji Trading Centre in Mchinji district on Monday injured three health officials who were collecting data on nutrition status of the District, on suspicion that they were blood suckers. One of the injured persons has been admitted at Mchinji District Hospital while the other two have been treated as out patients. […]
At least 12 suspects have been arrested in connection to the brutal murder of three people believed to be blood suckers in Mzimba and Chitipa districts on the northern part of Malawi. According to National Police Spokesperson, James Kadadzera, one person was killed in Mzimba and the other two lost their lives in Chitipa following […]
A mob in Mchinji has burnt to ashes a vehicle which was dumped in a village after running out of fuel, amid fears it may have been carrying blood suckers from nearby Zambia. Mchinji police spokesperson Kondwani Kandiado said the vehicle had run out of fuel and the driver had gone to buy the fuel […]
Mulanje First Grade Magistrate’s court has sentenced a 32-year-old man, Paul Namangale to 14 years Imprisonment with Hard Labour (IHL) for torching a house of a man he accused of harbouring purported bloodsuckers. Police officer Gladstone Kanyezi, prosecuting, told the court on Friday that in September 2017, Namangale and five others set on fire the […]
BBC journalists investigating a series of mysterious murders in Malawi have narrowly escaped death after villagers accuse them of being ‘ blood suckers’ [vampire child killers]. The team were working undercover to expose men who claim to suck the blood of children to make get-rich amulets when they were attacked by a crowd of furious […]