Grieving relatives and friends of a suspected Ebola victim were prevented from taking his body for burial.
Residents in DRC torch facility over burial disputes, spotlighting challenges in tackling Ebola outbreak.
People set fire to an Ebola treatment centre in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern DR Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, a witness and a senior police officer said, as fear and anger grow over a health crisis that doctors are struggling to contain. The arson attack in Rwampara reflects the challenges of health workers trying to curb a rare Ebola virus by using stringent measures that might clash with local customs, such as burial rites. The...