A swarm of bees attacked a construction crew in Riverside on Monday morning, leaving one man dead and two others injured, officials said.
The attack happened just before 10 a.m. in the 5200 block of Van Buren Boulevard. Construction crews contracted by Wal-Mart were grading a space for a new parking lot when they encountered an underground bee hive, Riverside Fire Department officials said in a statement.
"I was in the tractor, I looked down and he's swatting the bees," construction worker Thomas Marquez said. "You could just see a swarm around his head."
Marquez said colleagues used their jackets to swat the bees and sprayed the man with water to get the swarm off him.
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