A six-year-old boy has been stung to death by hundreds of hornets while helping his grandmother in the garden. Mon Kakada was being cared for by gran Jen Oeun, 62, while she pruned trees at the back of her house in Poun Village, in Cambodia's Koh Andet district.
She had begun cutting branches when she accidentally disturbed a banded hornet's nest on the morning of July 21. Horrified neighbours heard the boy screaming as the insects swarmed around him, stinging the tiny boy repeatedly.
They rushed to help the pair, but the boy, named locally as Mon, tragically died only a few minutes later while he was being carried away by his grandmother to hospital local reports said.
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