1 killed, friend hospitalised following bee attack
Another bee attack, this time on the East Coast of Demerara, has left one man dead and another seeking medical attention. The attack reportedly occurred on Sunday along the Montrose Seawall, ECD. The dead man has been identified only as “Sonny”.
Guyana Times understands that residents reportedly rescued the friend after he was attacked on Sunday afternoon. At that time, the residents contacted the beekeepers to remove the bees and as they turned up to do so, they stumbled upon the man’s body.
The now dead man and his friend reportedly lived in a makeshift camp along the seawall.
Sirpaul “Rishi” Hemraj, John Sutherland and Dorothy Adams
This is the fourth person who died during a bee attack in the past two weeks.
Two weeks ago, 57-year-old John Sutherland of Eversham, Corentyne, Berbice, and 58-year-old Dorothy Adams of Rotterdam, East Bank Berbice, were killed during separate bee attacks in Berbice. A few days later, 62-year-old Sirpaul Hemraj, former Head of the Black Bush Water Users Association, and resident of Mibicuri South, Black Bush Polder, was attacked and killed by bees.
It was reported that Hemraj left the Mibicuri NDC Office on his motorcycle in the company of two others, to make checks on an excavator which was doing drainage works in the backdam.
Hemraj was sitting on his motorcycle while the other men were overseeing the work of the excavator when suddenly someone started to shout, “Bee!” Everyone began to run to safety, but Hemraj was left behind.
When the others returned to the location, they observed Hemraj lying on the ground covered in mud, with swellings about his body. He was rushed to the Mibicuri Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
