Freetown, 25 Nov - (ANA) - Burial workers in the Sierra Leonean city of Kenema have gone on strike in protest at non-payment of allowances for handling Ebola victims. Fifteen bodies, most of them prepared for burial, were left abandoned at the city's main hospital. One of the bodies was reportedly left by the hospital manager's office and two others by the hospital entrance. The workers told a BBC reporter they had not been paid agreed extra risk allowances for October and November. The bodies have now been taken away but the workers remain on strike. Kenema is the third largest city in Sierra Leone and the biggest in the east of the country, where the Ebola outbreak first emerged. The burial workers' industrial action comes two weeks after health workers went on strike for similar reasons at a clinic near Bo - the only facility in southern Sierra Leone treating Ebola victims. Nearly 5,000 people have been killed in the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreak a global health emergency. (ANA)

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