A man died after being stung by a swarm of Asian hornets while he was fruit-picking with a friend. The 70-year-old sadly died after medical professionals were unable to reverse his severe state of anaphylactic shock after the insect attack.
The man, identified only by his first name Celso, was stung while picking persimmons on a farm in Gondomar near the northern Portuguese city of Porto.
Pal Abilio Rodrigues, 60, who was also hurt in the incident on Thursday morning, told respected Portuguese daily Jornal de Noticias: “I’ve never seen anything like it. “I went to cut the fruit from the tree and they attacked me. “They stung in the arm and on the head while I was on a ladder about 20 feet from the ground but I endured the pain so as not to
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