Bees sting and kill Arizona man, injure four others

An aggressive swarm of perhaps more than 800,000 bees was responsible for the attack and death of a man in the southern Arizona town of Douglas.  The bees were discovered in a 3 by 8 foot hive in the attic of an elderly homeowner's house.  Officials said that the massive hive could have been accumulating for 10 years inside the house, and that the owner probably did not know they were there.  An exterminator described the bees as Africanized or 'killer bees' which have steadily been migrating northward since their development in Brazil in the 1950's.  Arizona is one of several southwest U.S. states where Aficanized bees have been found.  Africanized bees tend to be more defensive of the hive and sting in groups, thus causing death in certain cases after multiple stings.

USA Today story