TWO children from La Belle Alliance village on the Essequibo Coast were rushed to the Suddie Hospital on Tuesday afternoon after they were attacked by a swarm of angry African bees, while retrieving a cricket ball from an abandoned house that is covered with bushes.

Reports detail that the two children were playing cricket in a yard when one of them hit the ball into a clump of bushes that has taken over the abandoned house, thereby disturbing the bees. When the two children rushed to the abandoned house to begin the search for the ball between the bushes, the bees attacked them.

The two children reportedly began screaming and running away from the house with hundreds of bees in hot pursuit. Several residents who heard the screams of the children rushed to the scene to render assistance, but had to run for cover as the bees began to attack them as well.

Residents reportedly managed to rescue the two children, while many others had to dive into trenches to escape the killer bees, which attacked several cows that were tied near the abandoned house to graze. One cattle owner said his two cows that were tied somehow pulled themselves free from the iron pipes they were tied to after the bees began to sting them. The farmer said the cows ran to the public road without looking back.

Several other animals within the vicinity of the enraged bees’ attack were also stung several times, and ran for their lives in all directions.

Reports are that the two children who were first attacked by the bees fell down almost lifeless, and were rushed to the Suddie hospital and admitted.

Meanwhile, the community is calling on the Ministry of Agriculture to eradicate the dangerous bees from the abandoned house before someone is stung to death.