China siblings killed by wasps – boy has 300 stings, girl has 700; beekeeper faces charges
On that tragic day, grandma brings duo along to do farm work, pair wander into pine woods before being swarmed by wasps
Two young siblings in southwestern China tragically lost their lives after being stung hundreds of times by wasps, leading to the detention of the farmer raising the bees on charges of negligent homicide.
This shocking event occurred on June 28 in a village in Muding county, Yunnan province, where a seven-year-old boy and his two-year-old sister were attacked by swarms of wasps, as reported by the news portal The Paper.
The children were typically cared for by their grandparents while their parents worked as migrants in eastern Zhejiang province.
On that fateful day, their grandmother took the children with her to do farm work in a cornfield. The siblings then wandered off to play in the nearby pine woods.
Their cries for help were first heard by a nearby villager, who went to investigate and was also stung. The villager quickly ran away to alert their grandmother.