A fire engulfed a United Nations warehouse in Guinea today that contained medicines and laboratory materials used for the fight against Ebola, causing no casualties but “a regrettable loss” in supplies, which the UN mission there vowed to quickly replace. An investigation into the fire was underway.
Ebola: ‘Regrettable loss’ caused by warehouse fire in Guinea
- 18 December 2014
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