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UN staff flee Malawi after six people are killed for allegedly ‘being vampires'

A spate of vigilante violence linked to vampire rumours also erupted in Malawi in 2002.
  • The United Nations has pulled staff out of southern Malawi
  • This is after six people were lynched for allegedly being vampires
  • Vigilante violence linked to vampire rumours also erupted in Malawi in 2002

The United Nations has pulled staff out of southern Malawi after a superstitious 'lynch mob' killed at least six people 'for being vampires.’

More than 100 riot officers were drafted into the region in response to the killings, but terrified armed mobs continued hunting for 'vampires' on the streets and set-up road blocks.

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