Jun 19, 2026 3:26 PM EDT
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Mourners gathered Friday to bury a 6-month-old girl who died from Ebola earlier this week, the third child to die at an orphanage in eastern Congo as authorities have struggled to contain the latest outbreak.
Carrying a cross, people stood at a distance as the small coffin was lowered into the ground by masked and gloved health workers, and a Catholic priest prayed over her body.
"It's a feeling of sadness because we have lost one of our own, a daughter of the church," said Father Innocent Ndogo.
"As we have always said, the Lord gives, and the Lord takes away."
