'Killer Bee' Attack Sends SoCal Man To Hospital

ALPINE, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities in San Diego County say an attack by so-called killer bees has sent a gardener to the hospital.

   Fire Chief Bill Paskle of the Alpine Fire Protection district says the 40-year-old man was working near two hives of Africanized honeybees on Wednesday in Alpine when about 40,000 bees from one hive attacked.

   Paskle tells KSWB-TV that the man ran up the street to a liquor store. He was stung at least 10 times and treated at a hospital for an allergic hospital.

   A professional bee remover, Dan Wasson, says the sound of the gardener's weed-eater may have prompted the bees to attack.

   Wasson also was stung and a co-worker was treated for exposure to toxic chemicals as they poisoned the hives.