Hundreds of Africanized bees attack rice farmers in Guyana, kill 1, police say

Africanized bees swarm Guyana rice farmers, kill 1

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Hundreds of Africanized “killer” bees have stung a rice farmer to death in the South American nation of Guyana. It is the second such death of a Guyanese farmer in two weeks.

Police identify the latest victim as 45-year-old Jerome O’Brian Scott. A statement says Scott and two other men were swarmed Thursday as they headed home from a rice farm in Liverpool Village.