Toddler, grandmother hospitalized after bee attack

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Fifty three year-old Basmattie Kishore and her two year-old granddaughter, are now patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) following a bee attack last weekend. Both Kishore and her granddaughter Anysa Pooran, who reside at Lot 820 Enmore, Hope West, East Coast Demerara, are in stable condition. Kishore told this publication that she was downstairs washing clothes on Saturday , when she felt the sting of two bees. She said that a few seconds after, the whole hive came buzzing from her neighbour’s ceiling. “I start hollering and me granddaughter come to me rescue. The bees hold on pun the lil’ girl,” the woman recalled.  Already swarmed by the insects, Kishore stated that she grabbed the little girl and ran into a nearby bathroom. She went on, “I tek she (Pooran) and sat under the shower. If I didn’t rub that lil’ girl, she wudda dead.” The woman said that at the time of the incident, her husband was at work. Kishore added that she and her granddaughter were taken to the hospital by a neighbour, whose two-storey house is infested with bees.(Kaieteurnews.com/photo:Kaieteurnews.com)…[+]