Nearly 30 persons sustained injuries, including seven of them critically, on Monday at Chanchunia village under Derabish block following a swarm of honeybees attacked them while they were organising the funeral rites of a fellow villager at the local burial ground.
According to sources, Gouranga Charan Sahu, a resident of Chanchunia, had died on Monday. His family members, relatives and fellow villagers were cremating the body at the village burial ground when seeing the fire, a swarm of honey bees came out from the bee hives located at a banyan tree and started attacking the people around. As a result, about 30 persons sustained injuries. Seven out of the 30 injured were rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital for treatment.