Bees stung five cops of Pandu police station on Saturday. However, all of them were safe and fit by Sunday, said officer in charge of the Pandu police station, S Tirkey.
Tirkey said the cops were chasing miscreants at Dala hillock and when they started climbing up the hillock the bees there attacked them with all ferocity.
Tirkey could not say if the miscreants had disturbed the beehive deliberately to stop these cops coming after them or the bees were just out on their own.
If it is bee here in Pandu there are scorpions and snakes at Hutar where there is a police picket, police said.
Cops at Hutar picket said they fear scorpions and snakes more than the extremists whom they have curbed and contained but these scorpions and snakes keep them on tenterhooks day and night.
SDPO Sadar Sandip Kumar Gupta said cops at Hutar have been asked to keep the picket’s inside and outside clean so as to detect any crawl of scorpions or slithering of the snakes.
Gupta said cops have been asked to use phenyl as its smell keeps scorpions away. Gupta further said this picket is right amidst the jungles and there is the rain fed river Koyal barely 30 feet away from where the picket is located.
In Charge of Hutar police picket M K Mandal said cops take extra care for scorpion and snake and it is a sheer good luck that no one here has been so far a victim of the bite of either a scorpion or a snake.