The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has condemned an alleged grenade attack at Dzaleka Refugee Camp.
Five people were injured when the explosive was detonated near the main market.
On Wednesday evening Dowa police received a report of an apparent explosion that had injured several people.
According to the district’s police spokesperson Gladson M’bumpha, the suspect a Rwandan refugee Umoton John Peter who is currently in custody allegedly threw a grenade at Bruno Ndaishime, leader of the Burundi community in the camp.
The UNHCR representative in Malawi Kouame Modeste, visited Dowa district hospital to show support to those that were wounded and their families.
Modeste has since urged the authorities to strive towards bringing the perpetrators to book and pledged his organisation’s support to ensure that investigations are swiftly conducted.
