Why were #Journalists and Health Care workers attacked and KILLED in #Guinea, Ground Zero of #Ebola outbreak?

At the end of this report the Journalists and health Educators were missing but now 8 bodies found with 3 Journalists dead in Guinea.

The WHO warned on Thursday there were no signs yet of the outbreak slowing, particularly in the three countries hardest hit. It said a surge in Liberia was being driven by an increase in the number of cases in the capital, Monrovia, where 1,210 bed spaces were urgently needed - five times the current capacity.

A U.S. C-17 military aircraft landed in Monrovia international airport on Thursday with a team of engineers to assess the capacity of the runway to handle large planes.

The United States plan will include the construction in Liberia - the country hit hardest by the outbreak - of 17 Ebola treatment centers with 100 beds each, plus training thousands of healthcare workers.

French forces will be based in an area where authorities are battling fears and stigma about the highly contagious disease.

Nine Guineans, including two journalists and several officials trying to educate the local population on the risks of Ebola, were missing on Thursday after being attacked by stone-throwing residents in Wome, a village close to the town of Nzerekore.

Damantang Camara, a spokesman for Guinea's government, said he could not confirm a local media report of six dead as officials had not seen any bodies. "A team has been dispatched to verify more information," he said.

In a rare piece of good news, the latest data showed no new deaths in Sierra Leone in the one day since the previous update.

The government in Sierra Leone has locked down the country, limiting movements for three days from midnight on Thursday. It said extreme measures are needed to contain the outbreak.

However, many people fear the decision will bring more hardship to a nation that is already one of the poorest on earth and critics also question whether it will even be effective.

(Additional reporting by Umaru Fofana in Freetown; Kate Kelland in London, Tom Miles in Geneva, John Irish in Paris and Daniel Flynn in Dakar; Writing by Bate Felix; Editing by Daniel Flynn and David Stamp)