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Three International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) volunteers helping with the burial of an Ebola victim in eastern Congo were injured in an attack by villagers, health officials said on Wednesday.
This had prompted the ICRC to have suspended burials in the area.
The attack on an ambulance transporting the body to a cemetery in North Kivu province’s Beni region is the latest disruption to efforts to control the current outbreak, which is believed to have killed one hundred and six people since July.
The World Health Organisation raised its assessment of the risk of the disease spreading within the region to “very high’’ after a case was confirmed near a lakeside border crossing point with Uganda.
Community resistance in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been one of the main problems facing healthcare workers, in addition to armed attacks by militia groups