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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jean-Yves Kamale and Monika Pronczuk

Young men storm a Congo hospital treating Ebola patients to demand bodies of their kin

Congo Ebola - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Angry young men stormed a hospital treating Ebola patients at the heart of the latest outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo on Sunday evening, forcing the medical staff to scramble to evacuate the patients as gunfire rang out in the area.

It was not immediately known if anyone was hurt in the attack on the Monbgwalu General Hospital but Dr. Richard Lokudu, the hospital’s medical director, told The Associated Press the attackers demanded that two bodies of their kin be handed over to them.

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