Report emanating from Foya, Lofa County indicates that a stinging honey bees attack Tuesday, 20 November 2012 left one person dead and five others critically wounded. Lofa County is situated in the northernmost portion of Liberia, with six political districts, Voinjama serving as the Capital City. The county's land area measures 9,982 square kilometers (3,854 sq mi), and it is one of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in country. According to the report, a swarm of honey bees Tuesday waged a stinging war on residents of Foya Town, killing an unidentified person and leaving five others wounded and hospitalized. The report reveals that the critically wounded persons are said to currently be receiving medical treatment at the Foya-Borma Hospital in the county. The report avers that the honey bee's attack, which is the first of its kind in that part of the country, witnessed the flying insects overtaking every quarter of Foya Town in very huge numbers. The honey bees' attack, the report maintains, terrified residents of the town and threw them in a state of confusion, with many persons running helter-skelter.
- RSOE EDIS
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