Elderly wheelchair user dies after attack by swarm of hornets

An 87-year-old woman died in September after she was stung more than 150 times by a swarm of giant hornets in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, as she traveled home from a nursing facility, the local fire service headquarters said Thursday.Neither a member of staff from the nursing facility accompanying her nor paramedics who attended the scene were able to help the elderly wheelchair user Chieko Kikuchi escape the swarm of Asian giant hornets, known as suzumebachi in Japan.The woman was rushed to hospital after the attack but died the following day of multiple organ failures.The insects swarmed Kikuc…READ FULL ARTICLE