Bees that stung Cotton Tree gravedigger to death still not removed

Hazim Bacchus

Two weeks after a 62-year-old man of Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice was attacked and killed by a swarm of bees at the burial ground in the village the bees have still not been removed.

Hazim Bacchus was undertaking his job as a gravedigger around 1:30 pm on September 15 when he came under attack from the bees.  He was rushed to the Fort Wellington Hospital where he succumbed about 45 minutes later.

His son-in-law, Rakesh Ragbeer told Stabroek News that the