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Mahaica woman stung to death by African killer bees
While thousands took to the streets yesterday to celebrate Mashramani, the family of 57-year-old
Moonia Sanicharra
Moonia Sanicharra is left to mourn after Africanized Killer Bees attacked and killed the elderly woman at Abdullah Dam, Cane Grove, Mahaica.
Reports are that the woman was climbing a mango tree in the backdam when the bees attacked. The stings took the woman by surprise and she flinched then fell flat on the ground. Her 13-year-old granddaughter, Devina, was present and witnessed the incident.
The dead woman’s daughter, Savitri Sanicharra, said that her mother left their home at Coconut Dam, Cane Grove, accompanied by Devina (Savitri’s daughter) at 10:00 am yesterday for the backdam to pick mangoes.
According to Savitri, her mother was fully aware that there was a hive of Africanized Killer Bees on the tree.
“My mother knew it had the bees there but she say how they won’t trouble her because she don’t trouble them. She knew the bee nest was there but said not to worry. I was home when my small sister call and tell me how mommy get sting up by the bees and fell off the tree and that the bees surround her,” said Savitri.
Kaieteur News understands that the matter was reported to ranks at the Cane Grove Police Station at 13:00 hrs by Narinedatt Budnarine, a relative of the woman.
It was also revealed that Sanicharra’s son and son-in-law were the ones who ventured into the backdam to recover her body.
In their moment of panic, they donned raincoats and put nettings over their heads to protect themselves from being attacked by the said bees.
This newspaper was further told that another relative did not have time to protect himself. He used his hands to cover his ears and ran to the spot where the woman’s body lay.
“It is a good distance where we live from where she got killed. We family ran to get back her body because bees had surrounded it,” added Savitri.
The woman’s body was only removed after several hours.
According to relatives of the deceased, police ranks were having difficulties in securing a hearse from the Lyken Funeral Parlour, to transport the body to Georgetown.
“We were here for a long time sitting (at the station) and the body was lying at the front under a tree in the compound. There was a sheet placed over her. Lyken take really long to come. Apparently, the Mashramani celebrations block up the traffic. We are so far from there. There should be a more convenient parlour somewhere closer or something,” stated one woman.
At Sanicharra’s house in Coconut Dam, other family members were making preparations for the customary “wake” that would follow.
Sanicharra’s brothers and sisters are expected to arrive in Guyana shortly before any funeral arrangements can be finalized.
Meanwhile, the Africanized Killer Bees are yet to be removed from the tree. (Kristen Macklingam)
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