Bees swarm over woman
NZPA-PA CArdiff A terrified mother screamed as she was smothered by a swarm of angry bees that stung her nearly 300 times, in a scene reminiscent of a Hitchcock film. Susan Walker, aged 44, battled against the bees for 30 minutes while her son, Huw, aged 15, watched helplessly from their car. His mother begged him to stay inside for his own safety, and refused his pleas
for her to get back in the car, in order to protect him from the furious swarm.
Superintendent Vincent Arkell said yesterday: “It was like something out of a Hitchcock film. It must have been a real nightmare for Mrs Walker.”
The attack happened when Mrs Walker, from Cardiff, pulled up beside a country road near Bristol to pick a flower for her daughter, Rosamund’s, school nature project.
She probably disturbed a queen bee, sparking the ferocious onslaught from the swarm. Passing motorists braved stings as they dragged Mrs Walker to safety away from her car, which was plastered with bees. Quick-thinking rescuers stripped the rings from her swelling fingers while others calmed her. She was taken, suffering from shock and multiple stings to her head, arms and legs, to a nearby hospital.
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