Byline: William Booth Washington Post
Killer bees have attacked in South Texas.
The first mass stinging by the bees was confirmed by bee specialists examining Brownsville bee body parts at the government's bee laboratory in Beltsville, Md., on Wednesday. The victim is doing fine.
The incident involved a riding lawnmower, a maintenance man named Cenobio Jesus Diaz and a rogue swarm thought to have crossed into the United States sometime this spring. Diaz was astride his power mower at the Siesta Mobile Park in Brownsville, Texas, when the machine disturbed a hive inside an abandoned drainage pipe. Then the bees attacked.
Diaz was stung 15 to …
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