Covered with just a sheet of plastic, the corpse of a suspected Ebola victim lies on the dirt in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.<br/> <br />A woman suspected of having the deadly virus sits nearby.<br/> <br />Residents here are furious over the government's slow response to properly bury the body, breaking into clashes with police.<br/> <br />Local law enforcement officials urge residents not take matters into their own hands, but to call the local emergency number to ensure medical teams can be deployed in such cases.<br/> <br />Eventually, crews from a Red Cross burial team arrived to remove the body.<br/> <br />Locals say their calls for help have not been heard, and that the body has been sitting for two days.<br/> <br />Sierra Leone is at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak hitting West Africa, which has killed nearly 4,500 since March.
