Images filmed by a health worker at a hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's east appear to show security forces re-seizing the facility from protesters who set it on fire, after they were apparently denied access to the bodies of relatives killed in the latest Ebola outbreak.

Byaruhanga Ghost, who sent the images to AFP, says the protesters tried to recover the bodies by force in order to bury them.

According to the WHO, the latest outbreak in the DRC, the 17th to hit the vast central African country of more than 100 million people, is already suspected of having caused 139 deaths out of nearly 600 probable cases.