Villagers stone Ighembe Seventh-day Adventist Church, injure three

On the evening of about September 13, 2026 (reported September 14), Karonga Police Officer In-charge Morgan Dzonzi said enraged villagers attacked the Ighembe Seventh Day Adventist church in Karonga District, Malawi, throwing stones and injuring three people who were taken to Kaporo Rural Hospital. The crowd also vandalized a Toyota Carina parked outside the church. Police said the conflict over land dates back to 2014, when certain community leaders were reportedly selling land designated for the church. Police initiated a search for those involved and urged residents not to take the law into their own hands.

Coordinates are the Ighembe locality pin (−9.72236, 33.86454) from places-in-the-world for Ighembe in Traditional Authority Kilupula, Karonga; Nominatim returned no place_of_worship pin for the church. occurredOn uses September 13 as the evening preceding the September 14 Malawi Data News report.