Liberian soldiers check people travelling in Bomi County in this August 11, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Stringer/Files
MONROVIA (Reuters) - A crowd attacked a makeshift Ebola quarantine centre in a rundown neighbourhood of the Liberian capital, throwing stones and looting equipment and food, witnesses said, and a health worker said patients had been removed from the building.
"They came in and took whatever they could take and took their patients because they don't want anyone here," a health worker, who declined to be named, said as a crowd gathered around the fence of the centre in the West Point neighbourhood late on Saturday.
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