~ Soldiers spill blood in Liberian Ebola slum as riot breaks out over the quarantine of 50,000 residents ~ WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Entire West Point slum quarantined after residents looted Ebola unit there Liberian President also orders nighttime curfew across the country Fears grow that the virus has spread to Congo after 10 deaths there ~ Liberian soldiers opened fire on residents of a slum in their countrys capital city today after it was locked down in an effort to contain the spread of Ebola virus. People ran screaming as soldiers from the countrys Ebola Task Force brutally enforced a quarantine of Monrovias West Point district ordered by the countrys president last night. As the violence erupted in Liberia, hundreds of miles away a team of experts was meanwhile dispatched to a remote part of of Congo where 10 people died after suffering Ebola like symptoms. It was not immediately clear if the victims had died of Ebola, but a witness said they had all suffered fever, diarrhoea and bleeding from the ears and nostrils - all symptoms of the deadly virus. The chaos in Monrovia erupted after protesters surrounded the home of the West Points commissioner, Miatta Flowers, blaming her for the decision to turn their neighbourhood into an open-air isolation ward. Soldiers carrying assault rifles lashed out at residents with telescopic truncheons and at least one man was shot as a security team moved in to evacuate Mrs Flowers. A resident of the West Point district told the Associated Press by phone that security forces were firing into the air to disperse crowds angry over the quarantine measures. Fear and tension have been building in Monrovia for days and West Point has been one of the flashpoints. Many residents feel the government has not done enough to protect them from the spread of Ebola ~ Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2729741/Liberia-declares-curfew-
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:44:05 +0000
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