Seven members of a family attacked by bees leaving two children deadTwo children, a brother and sister, aged two and four years, died on Wednesday when a swarm of bees invaded their home in Kitui County. The decease’s two cousins, aged seven and nine years, escaped death by a whisker and are recuperating at the Kitui County Level Five Referral Hospital from the angry bees’ stings. Also hospitalized at the same health facility include the dead children’s mother, Joy Muthini and her sister Faith Mwikali. The seventh survivor, Benson Kimulu Makau, 38, was treated at Kyusani Sub County Hospital in Kitui Rural and discharged. “I have given instructions that the two beehives, in which the attacking bees flew out from, be removed and damaged.

Source: Standard Digital February 28, 2019 13:21 UTC