Mechanic killed in bee attack

The Lot 239 Anaida Avenue house which housed the bees that attacked and killed Imran Hassan on Monday afternoon.

Chaos broke out at Eccles, East Bank Demerara on Monday, as a swarm of bees stung a mechanic and his relatives, killing him in the process.

Dead is Sheik Imran Hassan, 49, of Lot 238 Anaida Avenue, Eccles, EBD. According to the man’s son Sheik Arshaad Hassan, he was at work at Beharry when he received a call from his aunt, who was screaming and crying. Arshaad said all he could have deducted from the confusing phone was that he should go home urgently. On leaving work, he said, he was met by his aunt and another relative, who relayed to him that his father had been [and was still being] stung by a swarm of bees from the house next door – Lot 239 Anaida Avenue, Eccles. As such, Arshaad related that before going home he and his two relatives stopped at the “front road fire station” soliciting assistance for his father, “but they told us there is nothing they can do. We waited for about fifteen minutes and they told us the same thing” so they left. Upon their arrival home, Imran’s eldest son said he was met with the sight of his father lying in the street covered with bees. He also