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At least 70 police officers were hospitalized after so-called Africanized bees swarmed a police shooting range in southern Mexico, authorities said Tuesday.
The attack occurred Monday in Tapachula, Chiapas, after one of the police officers hit the bees’ hive with a bullet, local police Officer Miguel Serrano said Tuesday. “It was really bad,” Serrano said. “I haven’t seen anything like it, even in the movies.”
Experiment gone wrong: Africanized bees, a fierce hybrid strain sometimes referred to as “killer bees,” are the result of an experiment to increase honey production in Brazil. A swarm escaped a lab in 1957 and began heading north.
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