Liberian police open fire on Ebola protesters

Clashes break out when security forces quarantine neighbourhood and blockade it with tables, chairs and barbed wire.

About one million people may be at at risk of shortages of food and medicine in quarantine zones [AP] Police in the Liberian capital have fired live rounds and tear gas to disperse a stone-throwing crowd trying to break an Ebola quarantine imposed on their neighbourhood, as the death toll from the epidemic in West Africa hit 1,350. In the sprawling oceanfront West Point neighbourhood of Monrovia, at least four people were injured in clashes with security forces, witnesses said. It was unclear whether anyone was wounded by the gunfire, though a Reuters news agency photographer saw a young boy with his leg largely severed just above the ankle on Wednesday.