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Friday March 3 12:07 PM ET
Swarm of Bees Attack Woman, Child

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A swarm of bees attacked a mother and her baby in Sydney,
killing the woman and stinging the child more than 50 times, police said.

Maryanne Savor, 38, and her year-old daughter Natalie were playing on the front
lawn of their Sydney home Thursday when thousands of bees kept in hives in the
garage swarmed over them.

Savor tried to run inside her house, but collapsed at the front door and died,
probably from a toxic reaction to the multiple stings. Her baby was found crying
at her feet and rushed to hospital in a serious but stable condition.

``I have never seen a bee attack as bad as this before,'' Dr Alyson Kakakios,
who treated the baby, said Friday.

Police and ambulance officers who rescued the baby were also badly stung by the
bees, but were treated in hospital and released.

A beekeeper called to the house said the eight hives inside Savor's garage each
contained up to 80,000 bees. It was not known why the bees attacked.

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