Wednesday 20 August 2014

Liberian police fire tear gas to disperse protest over Ebola quarantine

Soldiers from the Liberian army monitor a border checkpoint as part of Operation White Shield to control the Ebola outbreak, at an entrance to Bomi County in northwestern Liberia By Clair MacDougall MONROVIA (Reuters) - Police in the Liberian capital Monrovia fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse a stone-throwing crowd agitating to leave a neighbourhood placed under quarantine because of the Ebola virus, witnesses said. Liberian authorities introduced a nationwide curfew on Tuesday and put the neighbourhood - West Point - under quarantine.




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