"CONAKRY, GUINEA — Eight bodies, including those of three journalists, were found in a remote area of southeastern Guinea after an attack on a team trying to educate locals about the risks of the Ebola virus, a government spokesman said Thursday.

“The eight bodies were found in the village latrine. Three of them had their throats slit,” Damantang Albert Camara told Reuters by telephone in Conakry.

However, Guinea’s Prime Minister Mohamed Said Fofana, speaking in a televised message that had been recorded earlier, said seven bodies of nine missing people had been found.

He said six people were arrested following the incident, which took place Tuesday in Wome, a village close to the town of Nzerekore in southeastern Guinea, where Ebola was identified in March.

Since then the virus has killed some 2,630 people and infected at least 5,357, according to World Health Organization, mostly in Guinea, neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia. It has also spread to Senegal and Nigeria.

Regional authorities in the affected countries are hamstrung by residents’ widespread fear, misinformation and stigma, complicating efforts to contain the highly contagious disease.

Fofana said the team — which included local administrators, two medical officers, a preacher and three accompanying journalists — was attacked by a hostile stone-throwing crowd from the village when it tried to inform people about Ebola.

He said it was regrettable that the incident occurred as the international community was mobilizing to help countries struggling to contain the disease."

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