Riot Police Beat Residents of Quarantined Liberian Slum in Ebola Crisis
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The sanctions imposed Wednesday cut the Monrovia seaside slum known as West Point from its coast and confines about 75,000 of its residents to curb the spread of a deadly virus that has already killed about 1,350 people in West Africa.
Liberia has experienced the brunt of this epidemic, leaving more dead at 576 than any other country in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization’s latest count between Aug. 17 and 18.
The Ebola Task Force sent security forces into the seaside slum to keep mobs of people from climbing over barbed-wire fences and infecting the capital, but protesters are fighting back with rocks after soldiers rescued a West Point commissioner, Miata Flowers, and her family.
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