{"id":260043,"date":"2025-07-12T22:26:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T22:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260043\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T22:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T22:26:26","slug":"bee-attack-in-southern-france-leaves-3-hospitalized-24-injured-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260043\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee attack in southern France leaves 3 hospitalized, 24 injured &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rare <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/bee-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bee attack<\/a> in the French town of Aurillac left 24 people injured, including some critically, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>People walking in the south-central <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/france\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a> town were stung over a period of 30 minutes\u00a0on July 6, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-bees-attack-8c24d5919db13eac5b817c91daf1e7ab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters and medical teams were rushed to the scene to treat the victims, while police set up a security perimeter until the bees stopped their attack.<\/p>\n<p>Aurillac Mayor Pierre Mathonier told French broadcaster BFM TV on July 7 that the three people in critical condition were sent to a local hospital and their condition has since improved.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>One of them, a 78-year-old, had to be resuscitated in the fire department\u2019s ambulance after cardiorespiratory arrest. That person is now in stable condition, Mathonier said. The two others \u201care in good health,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Mathonier told the media that the bees may have become aggressive after their rooftop hives were attacked by Asian hornets. He said the rooftop beehives were installed in a downtown hotel more than 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the beekeeper has removed the beehive and relocated it outside of the town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll ended well,\u201d Mathonier told the public television network France 3. \u201cThe emergency services were perfectly coordinated. There was no panic in Aurillac, but a number of people were stung.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11283063\/maya-hernandez-1-year-old-dead-hot-car-lip-filler-spa\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/maya-hernandez-car.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t1-year-old dies in hot car while mom gets lip filler at spa\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11284872\/justin-bieber-swag-stream\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/justin-bieber-swag.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tJustin Bieber drops \u2018Swag,\u2019 stuns fans with highly anticipated album\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on World<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Mathonier added that a 78-year-old victim was stung 25 times.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Col. Michel Cayla, in charge of the local fire services, said he had never experienced such an attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of the number of victims, the panic among the people and the severity of some of the injuries, it was impressive,\u201d he told broadcaster TF1.<\/p>\n<p>Reactions to stings from honeybees and wasps range in severity from minor to potentially fatal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org\/hometown-health\/speaking-of-health\/bee-prepared-for-bee-and-wasp-stings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Mayo Clinic<\/a>. In most cases, stings only cause a brief, sharp pain, along with slight swelling and redness.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re allergic to insect venom, a more severe reaction, called anaphylaxis, can occur and require emergency medical attention, the Mayo Clinic explains.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 With files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare bee attack in the French town of Aurillac left 24 people injured, including some critically, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[99682,2000,299,36,5776,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-260043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-bee-attack","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-trending","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114842618128842087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}