Sev­er­al peo­ple en­joy­ing a re­lax­ing af­ter­noon at Palmiste Park, San Fer­nan­do on East­er Mon­day were forced to seek med­ical at­ten­tion af­ter they were at­tacked by a swarm of bees.

For the safe­ty of chil­dren and adults, a near­by car show and mi­ni pet­ting zoo event host­ed by the Rapid­fire Kidz Foun­da­tion and Team Fast Parts was shut down. Fam­i­lies and friends were pic­nick­ing and en­gaged in fun ac­tiv­i­ties, in­clud­ing a birth­day lime, when around 4.15 pm, peo­ple be­gan run­ning and scream­ing as a swarm of bees sud­den­ly at­tacked.

Jef­fery Ram­roop who was about to sell his kites was stung all over his body by what he be­lieved to be thou­sands of bees. He was seen run­ning and ges­tic­u­lat­ing with his hands as he tried to get the bees off of him. Lenny Ma­hep­at who was at the park with his fam­i­ly got stung as he went to ren­der as­sis­tance.

“We heard a lot of scream­ing com­ing from down the hill. Peo­ple was run­ning. It had a la­dy cov­ered in bees. I take a sheet and cov­ered she down and I start spray­ing fly spray be­cause we brought food here. There was a guy across on the oth­er side cov­ered in bees al­so,” he re­called.

Emer­gency re­spon­ders ar­rived at the scene with two am­bu­lances and at least sev­en peo­ple were tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. Rapid­fire Kidz Foun­da­tion pres­i­dent Kevin Rati­ram apol­o­gised to the pa­trons for hav­ing to shut down the event, but he said it was nec­es­sary as he did not want to put any­one else in jeop­ardy.

Be­fore the fra­cas which brought the event to an ear­ly end, the Rep­tiles Con­ser­va­tion Cen­tre of T&T brought sev­er­al an­i­mals in­clud­ing snakes, lizards, spi­ders and caimans that kept the chil­dren en­ter­tained. There were al­so ponies, hors­es, bun­nies and dogs. The chil­dren were al­so ex­cit­ed by the fast cars, oth­er ve­hi­cles and mo­tor­bikes which were on dis­play.