Highway crash, followed by bees

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Highway crash, followed by bees
From correspondents in Ankara, Turkey
Agence France-Presse
September 29, 2009 01:21am
Van carrying bee hives hits truck
More than 20 taken to hospital
People trapped for hour among hives
MORE than 20 people have been taken to hospital in Turkey after a van carrying bee hives hit a truck, angering the bees who attacked crash victims and rescuers.

Six people were injured in the crash near the south-western Mediterranean resort of Marmaris and around 20 others, including medics and police, were taken to hospital with bee stings.

Professional beekeepers had to be called in to help evacuate the victims, some of whom had to wait for more than an hour to be extracted from among the mangled hives.

One of the six crash victims, an 18-year-old man, later died in hospital, but the cause of death was not yet clear, local governor Ahmet Altiparmak said.