Hawk disturbs wasps, woman chased to hospital

A woman who was attacked by wasps had run screaming to the Gampola Atabage Udagama Rural Hospital, and the wasps that had followed her had attacked a group of people who had come to the hospital clinic as well as the doctor there. fifteen including the doctor, were seriously injured and admitted to the Gampola Teaching Hospital.

Four members of the hospital staff, eight women and three men who had come to attend the medical clinic, and the doctor who had been conducting the medical clinic were also attacked by the wasps.

Villagers say that a hawk had attacked a wasp’s nest on a tree in the Kalawelgolla area in Atabage. A woman who had been walking by the hospital had been stung by these wasps and she had screamed and run into the hospital to escape the wasps. A large group of people had been gathered at the hospital at the time as a medical clinic was being held. As the woman who was screaming had run towards the group, the wasps that followed her had attacked them all.

This group had attempted to escape the attacking wasps by closing the windows and doors of the hospital and setting fires. Later, two ambulances had been brought to the hospital and the group, who had been seriously injured in the was attack, had been sent to the Gampola Hospital.

It was said that when people in shops near the hospital were threatened by wasps, they also tried to escape by closing their shops and setting up fires.

The rapidly spreading wasp population in the mountainous area has greatly affected the lives of people, including plantation workers and several people have already died due to wasp attacks.

Wasp attacks on plantation people and rural schoolchildren are frequent, resulting in hospitalisations.

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