Overview

• The half-hour attack began around 10 a.m. on July 6 when bees from a rooftop hive at the Hôtel de Bordeaux stung 24 passers-by in Aurillac’s center
• Firefighters, medical teams and police set up a perimeter, treated victims on scene and revived a woman who suffered cardiac arrest
• Mayor Pierre Mathonier said the swarm was provoked by invasive Asian hornets attacking the decade-old rooftop apiary
• The beekeeper has removed the hive and officials report all injured are now stabilized or improving
• Aurillac town hall is weighing whether to relocate or cull the colony and considering tighter urban beekeeping rules