Ebola outbreak: Sierra Leone workers dump bodies in Kenema

Burial workers in the Sierra Leonean city of Kenema have dumped bodies in public in protest at non-payment of allowances for handling Ebola victims.

The workers, who have gone on strike over the issue, abandoned 15 bodies at the city's main hospital.

One of the bodies was reportedly left at the hospital manager's office and two others at the hospital entrance.

Kenema is the third largest city in Sierra Leone and the biggest in the east, where the Ebola outbreak first emerged in the country.

The workers said they had not been paid agreed extra risk allowances for October and November.

The burial workers' industrial action comes two weeks after health workers went on strike for similar reasons at a clinic near Bo - the only facility in southern Sierra Leone treating Ebola victims.

BBC