Photos: Dead Bodies of Ebola Victims Lie Abandoned in Streets of Sierra Leone As Burial Teams Go on Strike

Bodies of Ebola victims are lying abandoned in the streets of Sierra Leone’s capital it has emerged, as burial teams strike over a backlog in ‘hazard’ pay.The Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation reported bodies of those who had died from the virus were being left in homes and on the streets of Freetown…Burial teams took strike action, complaining they had not received hazard pay for a week.

Pictured above, a woman faints after volunteers take away the body of a woman who died from the virus in Waterloo, 30km south east of the capital Freetown.The dead bodies of Ebola victims are highly contagious, raising fears more people were at risk of contracting the virus.Although officials today said the issue had been ‘resolved’, organisers of the strike action could not be reached to confirm it was over.It was not clear if the backlog of bodies had been cleared and whether there still remains a threat to the public.