--- title: Ebola Quarantine in Liberian Capital Prompts Clashes at Barricades description: At least four people were injured in clashes with Liberian soldiers and police, as the government laid barbed wire barricades around densely populated slum in Monrovia in an attempt to curb the contain the spread of the Ebola virus. canonical: https://time.com/3148813/liberia-ebola-clashes/ author: Dan Kedmey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-20T17:00:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:46:11.559Z article:section: Health og:title: Ebola Quarantine in Liberian Capital Prompts Clashes at Barricades og:description: At least four people were injured in clashes with Liberian soldiers and police, as the government laid barbed wire barricades around densely populated slum in Monrovia in an attempt to curb the contain the spread of the Ebola virus. og:url: https://time.com/3148813/liberia-ebola-clashes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7ca7304baa67bde/6986a03ee53ababc354d4176/453862210.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4626 og:image:height: 2602 og:image:alt: Liberia Battles Spreading Ebola Epidemic og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ebola Quarantine in Liberian Capital Prompts Clashes at Barricades twitter:description: At least four people were injured in clashes with Liberian soldiers and police, as the government laid barbed wire barricades around densely populated slum in Monrovia in an attempt to curb the contain the spread of the Ebola virus. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7ca7304baa67bde/6986a03ee53ababc354d4176/453862210.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 4 Injured in Violent Clashes as Liberians Storm Ebola Barricades > Sponsored content. 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A Liberian Army soldier, part of the Ebola Task Force, pushes back local residents while enforcing a quarantine on the West Point slum on August 20, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. John Moore—Getty Images  by [Dan Kedmey](https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Aug 20, 2014 5:00 PM UTC At least four people were injured in clashes with Liberian soldiers and police after the government laid barbed wire barricades around a densely populated slum in an attempt to contain the spread of Ebola. Young men surged towards the barricades and hurled stones at troops, who responded by firing live rounds of ammunition, the New York _Times_ [reports](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/world/africa/ebola-outbreak-liberia-quarantine.html). Agence France-Presse [reports](http://news.yahoo.com/clashes-erupt-sealed-off-ebola-area-liberia-capital-150947266.html) that at least four people were injured in the skirmish. The unrest highlights a deepening sense of mistrust among residents of West Point, a district that government officials designated as a quarantine zone on Wednesday morning. Tensions flared in the area earlier in the week as the opening of an Ebola treatment clinic in a local school fueled fears that health officials were bringing in infected patients from other parts of the city. The clinic was ransacked on Saturday, enabling several quarantined patients to escape. The death toll from suspected and confirmed cases of Ebola across west Africa climbed to 1,350 people, the World Health Organization [said](http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014%5F08%5F20%5Febola/en/) on Wednesday. \[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/world/africa/ebola-outbreak-liberia-quarantine.html?%5Fr=0)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3148813/liberia-ebola-clashes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3148813/liberia-ebola-clashes/"},"headline":"4 Injured in Violent Clashes as Liberians Storm Ebola Barricades","datePublished":"2014-08-20T17:00:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:46:11.559Z","description":"The clashes mark a deepening sense of mistrust at official responses to contain the Ebola outbreak","url":"https://time.com/3148813/liberia-ebola-clashes/","keywords":["Infectious Disease","clashes","ebola","Liberia","Quarantine","Monrovia"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7ca7304baa67bde/6986a03ee53ababc354d4176/453862210.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7ca7304baa67bde/6986a03ee53ababc354d4176/453862210.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Liberia Battles Spreading Ebola Epidemic","caption":"Liberia Battles Spreading Ebola Epidemic","creditText":"John Moore—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/infectious-disease/","name":"Infectious Disease"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3148813/liberia-ebola-clashes/","name":"4 Injured in Violent Clashes as Liberians Storm Ebola Barricades"}}]}] ```