People in Chitipa are sleeping in groups to be each brother’s keeper as blood sucking rumors have grown in the district.
According to locals, the reports on blood suckers are true because they have seen the blood suckers with there naked eyes and not, as the police say, ‘mere speculations’.
One of the villagers in the district, Eunice Msukwa said that women are sleeping in a church, guarded by men, who do not sleep for fear of being attacked by the attackers.
“Last week, about two women were sucked blood, things are not as they may seem to others out there. We have seen these terrorists with our eyes here in Chitipa,”claimed Msukwa.
Recently, people went unruly, looting police units on suspicion that the cops are the ones aiding the attackers in Mzimba and in Rumphi, a mob descended on a suspect, whom people thought was among blood suckers. He was rescued by the police from Hewe police unit.
Chitipa police spokesperson Rodney Simwaka is yet to comment on the matter but Malawi Police service said, in a statement that, blood suckers reports are fake.
