Robbers hijack vehicle carrying suspected Ebola patients’ blood samples

A Red Cross vehicle carrying a cooler containing blood samples from suspected Ebola patients was during the week, hijacked by robbers in Guinea.

Head of the Red Cross delegation in Guinea, Youssouf Traoré, told Reuters on Friday that he suspected that the robbers thought it was something else.

Giving no further details, he said the robbers would probably dump the cooler once they found it did not contain gold or diamonds.

More than 5,000 people have died in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in the worst outbreak of the Ebola virus on record.