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Man suffers 20,000 bee stings in horror attack

By T.K. Randall
September 1, 2022 ·  6 comments

Bees can be very dangerous when riled up in large numbers. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 2.0 Hola Mundo 20-year-old Ohio resident Austin Bellamy had been up a lemon tree trimming branches last Friday when he accidentally cut into a bee's nest.

Within seconds, a huge swarm of bees was all over him - stinging him repeatedly.

His uncle and grandmother, who were watching from below, could do nothing to assist as they, too, came under attack from the insects.

"I was going to try and climb the ladder to get to Austin... I seen how high he was... but I couldn't get to him because I was surrounded in bees," his grandmother said.

"He was hollering, 'Help! Help me! Help!' And nobody would help him."Eventually an emergency medical helicopter crew was able to get to him and take him to safety, however he had been stung an estimated 20,000 times and was in a very bad way.

To save his life, doctors took the decision to place him in a medically-induced coma.

To make matters worse, he had ingested as many as 30 of the insects.

"So he had bees inside of him, and they suctioned bees out of him until Sunday morning," his mother told reporters.

Fortunately, however, Bellamy has since woken up from his coma and doctors believe that he should go on to make a full recovery.

Source: Huffington Post | Comments (6)

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