Officials find possible Ebola patient contact
DALLAS – A homeless man being sought because of possible contact with the lone U.S. Ebola patient was found Sunday in Texas after several hours of searching, authorities said.
The person is not considered to be one of the 10 people who definitely had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, who is in critical condition at a Dallas hospital. However, he is part of a larger group of 38 people who may have been around Duncan when he was showing symptoms of the disease, officials said.
He was found a few hours after officials on Sunday morning announced he was missing, Dallas city spokeswoman Sana Syed said.
Duncan was listed in critical condition Sunday at a Dallas hospital.
Lawyer: No fast ID for 43 bodies
IGUALA, Mexico – Authorities examining a clandestine mass grave have found the bodies too badly burned to determine quickly whether they are among 43 students unaccounted for following a deadly clash between police and protesters a week ago in this southern city, a lawyer for families of the missing said Sunday.
Officials made no comment about the state of the graves or the number of bodies. But a person who visited the cordoned-off site said he had counted 29 corpses and all were “completely charred.” The person, who agreed to give the information only if not quoted by name because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the case, said the burial pits appeared to be recent.
Attorney Vidulfo Rosales, who represents families looking for the missing youths, told The Associated Press that officials would need to do tests to identify the remains found in the six pits on a hillside on the outskirts of Iguala, where a series of violent incidents last weekend resulted in six shooting deaths and more than two dozen people injured.
Rosales said relatives of 37 of the missing young people already had provided DNA samples that will be used to determine if the recovered remains belong to any of the students.
Associated Press
