Nyasa Times [Malawi]
23 March 2020
3 killed, 12 arrested over blood sucking allegations
in North Malawi
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. […] Similar allegations were
highly circulated in 2017 and 2019 in Phalombe and Mulanje districts where
lives and property was lost and nobody medically proven to have fallen victim.
Nyasa Times
[Malawi]
25 March 2020
Angry mob
injure Mchinji health officials over ‘blood sucking’ fears
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. […] There have been increased reports
in the district on alleged blood sucking and these emanates from the neighbouring
country, Zambia. […]
Nyasa Times
[Malawi]
25 March 2020
Police dispel
blood sucking rumours, warn against mob justice
Malawi police in
Mzimba have warned people in the district against taking laws into their hands
following the death of a suspected bloodsucker. […]
Malawi24
27 March 2020
Villagers
sleeping in groups for fear of blood suckers in Chitipa
At a time the
Malawi Police are describing blood suckers reports as mere paranoia, people in
Chitipa are sleeping in groups to be each brother’s keeper in case blood
suckers invade their homes. According to locals in the district, the reports on
blood suckers are factual and not, as the police say, mere speculations. […]
Malawi24
29 March 2020
27 arrested over
blood suckers saga
Malawi24
1 April 2020
Four arrested
for assaulting health workers over bloodsucking rumours
Police in Mchinji
have arrested four people for assaulting three medical workers from Mchinji
District Hospital on suspicions that they were blood suckers. […]
Malawi24
7 April 2020
21 people arrested for torching Police Unit over
bloodsucking rumours
Police in Ntchisi have arrested 21 people suspected of
torching Malomo Police Unit over bloodsucking rumours. Over the weekend, a
person was taken to Malomo police unit after being apprehended by members of
the community as he was suspected to be a bloodsucker. But at the police
station, the community members started beating the suspect. […]
Malawi24
9 April 2020
Bishop Mtumbuka says no blood suckers in Malawi
[…] In giving the background to the origins of blood
suckers. Mtumbuka said information he got from his fellow bishop in Zambia
shows that perpetrators of the vice initiated the move politically to dent the
image of the then ruling party. “Some political parties initiated this
malpractice to instil fear in people and give them an impression that the then
government was not capable,” he recalled. “So, these political leaders used to
give the assailants some equipments for suffocating and pumping blood from
people,” he added. “This caused Anarchy in Zambia. A lot of suspects were
killed in line with these vices.” Mtumbuka was, however, quick to urge
Malawians, especially from Karonga and Chitipa to be calm because there are no
blood suckers in Malawi. […]
Nyasa Times
9 April 2020
NSO put on hold amid blood suckers attacks
Officials from National Statistics Office (NSO) have
put on hold a survey following attacks over blood suckers myths. Spokesperson Kingsley
Manda has confirmed that the biological and behavioural survey had been
suspended until the issue of the blood suckers dies out. “The survey involves
collection of blood samples in some districts. With the blood suckers issue, we
cannot control because that would be putting lives of our data collectors at
risk,” he said. He said the data collectors came under severe attack last week
in Nkhata Bay and had their vehicle smashed as an angry mob suspected them to
be blood suckers. […]
Malawi24
14 April 2020
Student
arrested over fake news about bloodsucking
A 20-year-old form
four student has been arrested after he claimed that his blood had been sucked.
The student, Oscar Mwale, from Nanthomba Community Day Secondary School had a
nosebleed but he went on to tell his parents and other people that three
unknown people had sucked his blood. […]
Nyasa Times [Malawi]
29 April 2020
Police
commissioner Chisale dates Nkhotakota on blood sucking myth
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. […]
Malawi24
2 May 2020
15 arrested for damaging property over blood sucking
myths
Police in Nkhatabay have arrested 15 people for
damaging and stealing property worth K23 million over false claims about blood
suckers. According to Nkhatabay Police spokesperson Kondwani James, the crimes
were committed on April 1, 2020 and the suspects were arrested earlier this
week. The suspects damaged and stole property worth K23 million at a restaurant
and hair salon at Chintheche Trading Centre in Nkhatabay. They committed the
crimes after claiming that some blood suckers were being harbored at the
restaurant. […]
Nyasa Times [Malawi]
6 May 2020
Escom Condemns Attacks On Its Workers On Suspicion of
Being Blood Suckers
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. […]
https://malawi24.com/2020/06/18/insurance-officer-arrested-for-calling-police-officers-bloodsuckers/
Malawi24
18 June 2020
Insurance officer arrested for calling police officers ‘bloodsuckers’
Police in Dedza have arrested a Reunion Insurance officer for accusing police officers of being bloodsuckers. Dedza police station deputy publicist Sergeant Cassim Manda has identified the suspect as Matthews Mvenya aged 34. […] Police officers tried to reason with him that they were not bloodsuckers but he insisted claiming that they are behind alleged acts of blood sucking.
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