Three youngsters, a part of a 10-member trekking staff, sustained severe accidents in a bee assault on the Sanjay Gandhi Nationwide Park (SGNP) in Mumbai on Monday, officers stated.
In line with the Thane Municipal Company’s (TMC) catastrophe cell, the group went for trekking at Yeoor Hills inside SGNP and bought trapped inside one of many caves situated within the hill prime whereas attempting to flee the bee assault, at the same time as three of them had been stung by the bugs. They despatched SOS messages to the catastrophe cell, following which its fast response power together with native police rescued them after an hour-long operation.
“The hill aspect has forests which have a number of bee hives, considered one of which was broken by the trekkers, following which the bugs attacked them,” an official stated.
“A staff from Vartaknagar police and Thane Catastrophe Response Drive rescued them. The youngsters are from Thane in addition to areas like Vikhroli, Kanjurmarg, Ghatkopar, and so on., in Mumbai,” one other official stated.
The rescued trekkers had been taken to an area hospital, the place three youngsters —Samarth Mayekar (18), Varad Basa (18) and Soham Deshmukh (18) — who sustained severe accidents within the bee assault, are in a secure situation, officers stated.
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