Wave of attacks which had already killed six people spreads to country’s second city, Blantyre, where epileptic man is ‘torched’A wave of attacks in Malawi against people accused of vampirism has spread to its second-biggest city of Blantyre, where vigilante mobs killed two people, police said on Thursday. UN moves staff after mobs kill five in Malawi vampire scare Read moreThe lynch mob attacks began in mid-September in a country that is one of the world’s poorest and where belief in witchcraft is widespread. A family member confirmed the man was epileptic and that he was killed while walking home from a nearby hospital. The UN and US embassy have blacklisted several districts in Malawi as dangerous zones for staffers and nationals. Earlier this month the UN pulled staff out of two districts in southern Malawi.

Source: The Guardian October 19, 2017 17:14 UTC