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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Justin Kabumba and Wilson McMakin

18 Ebola patients flee as second treatment tent is set on fire in Congo

Another treatment centre in Rwampara was burned on Thursday - (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Residents of a town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo set a treatment center on fire on Friday night in the second such attack in the region in a week.

Eighteen people believed to be sick with the virus left the facility as unidentified assailants targeted the clinic in Mongbwalu. They torched a tent established by Doctors Without Borders for suspected and confirmed Ebola cases, Dr. Richard Lokudi, director of Mongbwalu General Reference Hospital, confirmed.

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