A bee attack yesterday at Number 27 Village, West Coast Berbice has left one fisherman dead, two hospitalized in serious conditions and several others with stings.
The fishermen were on their way to register for the government’s fisherfolk grant which was recently announced when they were attacked by the bees.
Dead is Winston Rigby, 71, of Number 41 Village, West Coast Berbice. Injured are Rigby’s brothers: William Rigby, 44 of Onderneeming, West Coast Berbice; Kenneth Rigby, 72 of El Dorado Village, West Coast Berbice; and Basil Ramesh Davie, 56, of Bushlot Village; Leon Bobb, 61 of Belladrum Village; Glenroy Fraser, 62, of Number 22, and Charles Cadogan, 59 both of Bel Air.
