CAMALOTE, Cayo District, Mon. July 1, 2019– Arturo Gomez, 35, a backhoe operator of Camalote, was stung by killer bees while working on a farm in Camalote on Friday with his backhoe. He is now in an induced coma at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital.

Joseph McEwan, the owner of the farm, said that Gomez was working and they were talking when killers bees swarmed around them and began to attack them.

Gomez, who had fly repellant, began to spray the bees, and he ran into his pickup, but the windows were down and the swarming bees went into the cab and attacked him.

He managed to call a relative, however, who went to his aid and braved the bees and rushed him to the Western Regional Hospital, from where he was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for further treatment.

McEwan told Plus TV News that when he ran into his house, the bees followed him into the house and kept attacking him. People who were in the house helped him to kill the bees, and they closed up the house.

The Forestry Department has been asked to go to the farmhouse and remove the bees. The hive was in the eave of the house.

Gomez has been declared to be in a serious but stable condition.