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A court in Conakry, capital of Guinea, has sentenced 11 men to life imprisonment for killing eight members of an anti-Ebola team in the south-eastern village of Womey in September 2014.

The men were also fined $ 137,000, which would be used as compensation to the families of the victims.

However, the court acquitted 15 other accused persons for lack of sufficient evidence.

In mid-September last year, eight government and health personnel, who had gone to warn the villagers about dangers of the virus, were killed by the accused who opposed their campaign.

Forty-two other people mentioned in the case are yet to be found.

Guinea was one of the West African countries that was affected by the outbreak of the virus, with 3,128 confirmed cases, out of which 1,939 died.