8 Ebola Workers Killed by Panicked Mob in Guinea
Eight members of a delegation on a mission to raise awareness in a remote village in Guinea about the Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa were killed this week by an angry mob who thought they came to spread the disease, a government spokesperson said Thursday. The delegation of government officials, health workers, journalists and a pastor left for the remote village on Tuesday, the New York Times reports. Several officials who escaped said an angry crowd in the village began hurling rocks at them. Read the rest of the story at the Times.