Vigilantes kill eight people in Malawi amid fear of 'bloodsuckers'

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Vigilantes kill eight people in Malawi amid fear of 'bloodsuckers'
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Vigilante groups have killed at least eight people in northern Malawi claiming to be protecting communities from “bloodsuckers”, a local official has said.

The latest victims were from Mozambique and were attacked on Monday while travelling to Tanzania through Malawi’s northern region.

“A group of vigilantes apprehended them but because of the language barrier, they could not understand each other,” the regional spokesman, Peter Kalaya, told AFP.

Read more at:  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/vigilantes-kill-eight-people-in-malawi-amid-fear-of-bloodsuckers