‘Living Skeletons’ in Sierra Leone Found

The U.N. World Food Program in Rome reported finding hundreds of emaciated people in Sierra Leone who looked like “living skeletons” after being held by rebels as slave laborers for up to five years. U.N. officials who heard reports that hundreds of sick and hungry people had walked long distances in search of food said they found a “horrific scene” at the town of Blama. “Men and women were reduced to skeletons, with some of them having to support themselves on sticks to walk,” the WFP said.