Ebola crisis: Guinean priests beaten up over health fears

BBC    by Alhassan Sillah                                                  Jan. 20, 2015
CONAKRY --Three priests from a Baptist church in Guinea have been beaten up and held hostage because local people mistook them for Ebola awareness campaigners.

The priests had gone to the village of Kabac in Forecariah intending to spray insecticide on wells and pit latrines, a BBC reporter says.

But they were set upon by villagers who suspected they may have been bringing the Ebola virus into the area, he adds.

Earlier this month, residents in Forecariah attacked and killed two police officers they suspected of bringing Ebola to the area.

The priests were badly beaten and their vehicle was set on fire.

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