A machete-wielding mob clashed with security personnel in the eastern town of Koidu and then went on a rampage on Tuesday, after preventing a medical team from taking the blood from the 90-year-old mother of a youth leader, doctors from the local government hospital said.この暴動が起きたことは、Reutersも現地Koiduの警察の責任者David Koromaに確認している。
The woman, who had been suspected to be infected with Ebola, had died and was thought to have high blood pressure.
「マチェットを振り回す暴徒たちが、若者たちのリーダーの母親である90歳の女性から、医療チームが血液サンプルを採取するのを阻止しようとして、保安要員と衝突し、暴動となった」とKoiduの病院の医師たちがAFPに語った。
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Tuesday's unrest erupted when a crowd holding machetes and shovels stopped one team in the diamond mining town of Koidu from testing the elderly woman.
When the health workers called in security guards for protection, the violence grew into a riot, resulting in the two deaths and 10 people being wounded, the doctors the Koidu Government Hospital said.
2014/10/21に、ダイアモンドタウンであるKoiduの医療チームが、老女を検査しようとするのを、マチェットとシャベルで武装した群集が阻止しようとして、不安が噴出した。
医療チームが安全確保のために保安要員を呼ぶと、暴力は暴動に発展し、2名が死亡し、10名が負傷したと、Koidu地方自治体病院の医師たちが述べた。
"Two bodies are now at the mortuary. I cannot say whether they have bullet wounds or what caused their deaths as the corpses have not yet been examined," said one of the doctors who asked not to be identified.
He said a number of people including security personnel had been brought in with non life-threatening wounds.
匿名を条件に語った医師によれば「2名が埋葬されたが、死体は検死されておらず、銃創があったか、死因が何かはわからない。保安要員を含む数名が、生命に別条のない負傷で病院に運び込まれた」
"Ebola contact tracers visited the house of a prominent youth leader to take a blood sample of his ailing 90-year-old mother but were barred by a gang of youths" who angrily disputed that the woman had the disease, a witness said.
In the ensuing rampage, several buildings including the community-run Eastern Radio station were attacked.
目撃者によれば「エボラ接触者追跡チームが、有名な若者のリーダの家を訪れて、病気だった90歳の母親の血液サンプルを採取しようとしたが、母親はエボラではないと怒った若者たちの集団に阻止された」
暴動で、地元Eastern Radio局を含む、いくつかの建物が襲撃された。
[2 die in Sierra Leone riot sparked by Ebola tests (2014/10/22) by AFP]
David Koroma, the police unit commander in Koidu, said rioting began when a former youth leader refused health authorities permission to take her 90-year old grandmother for an Ebola test.
[UPDATE 1-Curfew in Sierra Leone town after rioting, shooting over Ebola case (2014/10/21) by Reuters]
この事態に対して、警察は1日間の外出禁止令を出した。
A day-long curfew was imposed by police as gangs of youths roamed the streets shouting "No more Ebola!"この暴動により、地域の保健当局のDr Manso Dumbuyaによれば、病院は閉鎖に追い込まれた。
The son of the elderly woman, a youth leader named Adamu Eze, commands wide support in the town. Police were looking for him but he was said to have gone into hiding.
通りを若者たちの集団が「ノーモア エボラ」と叫んで歩き回り、現地の警察は一日間の外出禁止令を出した。老女の息子で、若者たちのリーダーであるAdamu Ezeは町で支持を求めている。警察は彼を探しているが、どこかに潜伏しているもよう。
Local police chief David Koroma told AFP that calm had returned to Koidu on Wednesday but that the area remained tense.
He added that officers were watching the situation and that "people should go about their normal business without fear".
地元警察署長のDavid KoromaがAFPに「Koiduの町は2014/10/22には平穏を取り戻したが、緊張感は漂っている。計算は事態の推移を見守っており、市民は恐れずに日常生活を送るべきだ」と語った。
[2 die in Sierra Leone riot sparked by Ebola tests (2014/10/22) by AFP]
Dr Manso Dumbuya, the district medical officer, said he had been forced to abandon the hospital because of the rioting. The diamond-rich district of Kono, which includes the town of Koidu, does not have an Ebola treatment centre and cases are taken to neighbouring Kenema or Kailahun.
Koiduの町を含む、ダイアモンドが豊かなKono地方にはエボラ治療センターはなく、感染者は近隣のKenemaあるいはKailahunに搬送される。
[UPDATE 1-Curfew in Sierra Leone town after rioting, shooting over Ebola case (2014/10/21) by Reuters]
