20 Middle School Students Stung By Bees In Fort Worth
Updated: 4:30 p.m.
SAGINAW (CBSDFW.COM) -- A group of students at Highland Middle School in Fort Worth was attacked by a swarm of bees on Tuesday.
Kristin Courtney with Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD says that approximately 20 6th-grade students were stung while outside on the soccer field for PE class.
Four students have been transported from the scene for medical treatment. MedStar listed one of the students in serious condition.
"I was just running and someone came by with the bees by their side and they just got me," said sixth grader Isaac Armendez.
The remaining students suffered minor injuries in the attack and will be treated on location at the school.
All of the students assessed are between the ages of 10 and 12.
The district says that the bees had built a hive in an underground irrigation valve box.
"The students were playing soccer and must have stepped on the valve box and the bees swarmed around the students," said Courtney.
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District maintenance personnel and the district's exterminator are on location. The Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD says a school district exterminator had to euthanize the bees; they were too upset for him safely remove the hive.
Animal control is awaiting tests to determine if the bees are Africanized.
"How they were disturbed, we don't know if they ran across the lid or kicked but obviously the bees came out pretty rapidly," said MedStar Operations Surpervisor, Heath Stone.
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