Albino Killing Resumes In Malawi

While Malawians are still experiencing economic hardships the killing of people with albinism has resurfaced in the country.

Unknown assailants have killed a three-year-old girl with albinism at Mawawa village in the area of Chief Chulu in Kasungu district on Wednesday night.

The Kasungu police spokesperson, Joseph said the assailants broke into the house in which the girl was sleeping with her grandmother and stabbed her before chopping off her arm and sped off.

There are beliefs that some unidentified people uses parts of people with albinism for rituals.

Kachikho has since identified the girl as Talandila Chirwa and a manhunt for the suspected killers have been instituted.