Eric Chiwaya, a member of the United Democratic Front, is the urban governor for

Blantyre Blantyre () is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with an enumerated 800,264 inhabitants . It is sometimes referred to as the commercial and industrial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, L ...

Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeas ...

. On January 8, 2003, he was stoned by a mob which argued that the

government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is ...

was colluding with vampires.CNN.com - Malawi politician victim of vampire rumors - Jan. 11, 2003
/ref> Chiwaya survived the attack and denied the allegations.

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