Dogs  are digging up the corpses of Ebola victims buried in shallow graves in Liberia and eating them in the street, villagers have claimed. Furious residents of Johnsonville Township, outside capital Monrovia, raised the alarm after packs of wild dogs were spotted digging up corpses from a specially-designated 'Ebola graveyard', dragging them into the open and feeding on their flesh. It is the latest development in the epidemic, which was today confirmed to have reached Senegal. The grisly scenes in Liberia came three weeks after government health officials - desperate to stem the country's rising infection rate - hurriedly buried the bodies despite a heated standoff with villagers who refused to give their permission to use the land.
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Officials hurriedly buried bodies in middle of night so locals would not know
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Residents in Johnsonville Township had refused permission for graves
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Experts say dogs will not get sick  but could transmit to humans by biting
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Comes as Ebola spreads to Senegal after infected man arrives from Guinea
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WHO says Ebola cases are rising at highest rate since outbreak began
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