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Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have suspended efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in the city of Beni due to worsening rebel attacks.
A militia attacked "a few meters" from an emergency center, the country's health ministry said.
Staff of the World Health Organization (WHO) was forced to leave, a shell hit the building in which he was.
We do not know when the mission could resume.
The Ministry of Health has blamed the attack of the emergency center on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a militant Islamist group active in Uganda since the 1990s.
But it was unclear who had fired the shell that had hit the house where there were 16 members of WHO staff. He struck during gunfire and could have come from the militia, UN peacekeepers or the Congolese army.
Staff members took refuge downstairs before evacuating Beni to another city.
Health officials in the region stopped vaccinating and carrying out other sensitization activities two months ago following a rebel attack in which 18 people died.
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Seven peacekeepers and 12 Congolese soldiers were killed earlier this week during a joint operation against the ADF.
An Ebola outbreak in the region has killed more than 200 people since August.
