Womey

Womey
Sub-prefecture and town
Womey

Location in Guinea

Coordinates: 8°04′41″N 8°46′55″W / 8.078°N 8.782°W / 8.078; -8.782Coordinates: 8°04′41″N 8°46′55″W / 8.078°N 8.782°W / 8.078; -8.782
Country  Guinea
Region Nzérékoré Region
Prefecture Nzérékoré Prefecture
Time zone GMT (UTC+0)

Womey (or Womé or Ouomé) is a town and sub-prefecture in the Nzérékoré Prefecture in the Nzérékoré Region of Guinea.[1]

The sub-prefecture is 494 km2 in area and has a population of 13,196 (2014 census).[2]

Incident on 16 September 2014

Main article: Womey Massacre

On September 16, 2014, a local Guinean government team arrived in Womey to educate the population about ebola. They were set upon by local people, and later the bodies of eight of them were found in a public latrine pit.[3][4][5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Subprefectures of Guinea". Statoids. Retrieved March 9, 2009.
  2. ↑ ""Womey (Sub-Prefecture)," CityPopulation.de". Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  3. ↑ ""Violences à Womey : huit corps exhumés, six interpellations et une déclaration du PM attendue," Guineenews.org, 18 September 2014 (accessed 19 Sept 2014)". Guinéenews. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  4. ↑ ""Ebola/Guinée : sept personnes disparues en mission de sensibilisation retrouvées mortes (gouvernement)," ReliefWeb, 18 September 2014 (accessed 19 Sept 2014)". ReliefWeb. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "Eight dead in attack on Ebola team in Guinea. ‘Killed in cold blood.’" Washington Post, 18 September 2014 (accessed 19 Sept 2014)


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