42 SRI LANKAN SCHOOLCHILDREN HOSPITALISED AFTER ATTACK BY WASPS

25 students of Killinochi Maha Vidyalayam were hospitalized in June 2022 after they were stung by a swarm of wasps. (FILE PHOTO)

Mon 17 October 2022:

Health officials reported that 42 students at a school in northern Sri Lanka were hospitalized on Monday following a wasp attack, the most recent of an increasing number of attacks of this nature across the country.

The attack happened after a student in Bogaswewa, Vavuniya, 255 kilometers to the northeast of the capital, threw a stone at a sizable nest close to a school.

After the attack, some of the kids vomited, felt dizzy, and had breathing problems, so parents and teachers rushed them to the hospital, according to the police.

Such attacks can be dangerous and some of the students were in critical condition, as wasps carry a poisonous venom, hospital officials said.

The local residents stated that they were able to save many children from the wasp attack by removing them immediately from the school, with the help of the school teachers and also the parents.

A string of similar incidents have been reported in different parts of the country in the recent months.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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