Ebola Health Worker Killed by Villager

Horrifying incident marks a different kind of deadly caused by the Ebola virus.

Eight officials, five health workers and three journalists, who went to a remote village in Guinea to raise awareness about the Ebola virus were killed by the villagers there.

Gripped by the fear of the Ebola epidemic, the villagers attacked the officials claiming that they had come to spread the disease. The delegation was distributing information about Ebola when a group of angry and fearful villagers began throwing rocks and beating them with clubs.

Three days later, the bodies were found in the septic tank of a primary school in the village. Three of them had their throats slit. A spokesman for Guinea's government says the group had gone on a mission to sensitise the local population about Ebola but instead, they were killed in cold blood.

During the attack, several officials managed to escape the mob and alert their colleagues in the capital of Guinea, Conarky. One journalist and a five-year-old boy who is the son of a sub-prefect survived by fleeing into bushes. The deadly Ebola outbreak has caused widespread fear and panic. Villagers in Guinea have been threatening workers and officials with knives, stones and machetes.