The fear of contracting the deadly Ebola Virus Disease has made residents of Udo community in Ovia South west local government area of Edo state to leave a man who was suspected to be suffering from epileptic to die of the attack.
The Complete News gathered that the residents were scared of touching his body after an attack.
A driver hired to take the deceased to the hospital, it was learnt ran away for fear of being infected with the Ebola virus.
Some of the villagers insisted that the deceased had an epileptic attack but others said he was an Ebola victim as blood was noticed in some parts of his body.
A source said the villagers covered their hands with clothes and bundled the sick body into an empty bus and asked the driver to take the man to a hospital but the driver who they said became scared turned down the request.
A resident who preferred anonymity told our correspondent that the driver brought down the epileptic patient from his bus after which the man died.
