Overview

• An estimated 70,000 bees descended on Aurillac’s city center on July 6 and launched a 30-minute attack that left 24 people stung.
• Police established a safety cordon while firefighters and paramedics treated victims on site, including reviving a 78-year-old woman after cardiac arrest.
• Five firefighters sustained stings during the rescue and all three patients who had been in critical condition have now recovered.
• The beekeeper dismantled the decade-old rooftop apiary at the Grand Hôtel de Bordeaux and relocated the hives outside city limits.
• Aurillac’s prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into a possible Asian hornet attack on the hive and ordered the swarm’s destruction.