Texas Man Dies After Being Stung By Swarm Of Bees

WACO, TX -- An elderly man in a rural McLennan County died Friday after being attacked by a swarm of bees, according to a published report.

Police identified the man as 68-year-old Donald Williams. The man's wife also was stung and received treatment at the hospital, KWTX-TV reported. The

The news station reported the woman administered CPR as she waited for emergency officials to respond to the scene. Paramedics arrived at their home on the outskirts of Waco, continuing CPR efforts as they transported the man to Baylor Scott & White Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center, the news station reported.

Authorities said the man was mowing his backyard when he was attacked by the bees. Officials said the bees came from nearby hives that belonged to the couple.

The report didn't make clear what kind of bees stung the couple. In Texas and elsewhere, attacks of Africanized honey bees have led to injuries and even some deaths.

In early June, a man in Midland and his two dogs were attacked by bees, stinging the man more than 50 times and his dogs more than 1,000 times. The man's dogs died as a result of the attack, according to reports. The man was spared further injury after a neighbor dispersed the bees with water from a garden hose, a report said.

And in July of 2015, a man in Lozano, Texas -- part of the Brownsville-Harlingen metropolitan statistical area -- was killed after being stung more than 3,000 times. A farmer, the man struck an abandoned irrigation pipe on his tractor, upsetting thousands of bees that lurked inside.

People magazine reported the man's family noticed the unattended tractor and found the man's body some 100 yards away, covered in bees.

According to a 2015 report by the Washington Post, bees, wasps and hornets kill about 58 people every year.

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