42 Sri Lankan students hospitalized following wasp attack

42 Sri Lankan students hospitalized following wasp attack
October 17, 2022, 5:25 pm

Wasps have spread to all parts of the world except for the polar regions - Photo. Pixabay

Around 42 students in northern Sri Lanka were hospitalized on Monday (Oct 17) following a wasp attack, the Xinhua reported.

Teachers and parents told the media that a wasp's nest, on a tree near a school building in Vavuniya, was disturbed due to some unidentified activities, causing the wasps to attack people around.

The victims were admitted to the local hospital and a hospital spokesman said some of the students were in critical condition.

Eyewitnesses said there would have been more victims if teachers and the parents did not evacuate the school immediately.

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A few wasp attacks take place each year in the district and local police said they have asked the wildlife officials to take action against such incidents.

A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies, which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder.

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