Three days after three Ebola health officials went missing in Guinea, eight of them, five health workers and three journalist were reportedly found dead in a village latrine in the Nzerekore region.
A spokesman for Guinea's government, Damantang Camara, told Reuters, "Three of them had their throats slit." The health team went missing Tuesday after villagers threw rocks at them.
According to the Washington Post, a group of young people attacked the team when they were trying to distribute information about Ebola.
The government sent a delegation to the village to try to find the team, when they suspected they would have been kidnapped, but the BBC reported that the delegation had trouble gaining access because a bridge was destroyed.
Throughout West Africa and in Guinea, specifically, some villagers have reacted negatively to health workers because they doubt Ebola is real.
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