A bee attack on the campus of Government College, Sector 11, caught a group of students unawares and left one injured. The incident took place around 10 am on Saturday when Sonam Walia, a student of MA (first year), was sitting in the college lawn with her friends.

A swarm of bees suddenly attacked them. “We saw some students running helter-skelter to save themselves from bees,” a student said. “Sonam immediately started rolling on the ground, and her friends tried to cover her with a blanket.”

Sonam was rushed to the Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 16. She has been stung on face. Her friends also sustained minor injuries in the attack.

There is no beehive in the vicinity of the place where the students were sitting. Eyewitness, however, said someone must have disturbed a beehive nearby, which led to the attack.

Experts also ruled out the possibility of bees attacking without any trigger, as in winters they remain dormant.

Bee attacks are more frequent in summers.

In July this year, around 20 students of the Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 33, were attacked by a swarm of bees in the school playground.

Subsequently, the school authorities had got the beehives on the trees inside the school removed.

In another incident last year, a man who had gone to meet a patient in the emergency ward of PGI was attacked by bees. The man had died as the acid of the stings had reacted with his blood.

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