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Malawi police arrest 140 for killing suspected vampires

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Malawi police said they have arrested 140 suspected members of vigilante mobs that have targeted people accused of vampirism, clamping down after a wave of attacks that have killed at least nine.

The lynch mob attacks began in mid-September in four districts in southern Malawi, where belief in witchcraft is widespread.

This week they spread to Blantyre, the country’s second-biggest city, where mobs torched one person and stoned another to death on Wednesday.

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“We have so far arrested 140 people we suspect are behind the mob killings in Blantyre and other districts and the investigations are still going on,’ Lexon Kachama, Inspector-General of Malawi Police, told reporters.

Police were doing everything possible to contain the situation and ensure the violence did not spread to other cities and townships, he said.

President Peter Mutharika has also been visiting parts of the country affected by the violence.

UN and U.S. embassy have blacklisted several districts in Malawi as dangerous zones for staffers and nationals.

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UN also pulled staff out of two areas in southern Malawi

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