Three dead after Berbice bee attacks

Three Berbice residents were killed in separate bee attacks on Thursday and yesterday.

Dead are Sirpaul Hemraj, a ranger and former Chairman of the Black Bush Water Users Association, 61, of Lot 95 Mibicuri South, Black Bush Polder, Dorothy Adams, a housewife, 58, of Rotterdam Village, East Bank Berbice, and John Sutherland, a farmer, 57, of Eversham Village, Corentyne.

Hemraj’s wife, Savitri Hemraj, told Stabroek News that she was inform-ed just around 1.30 pm that her husband and some others were attacked by a swarm of bees yesterday.