- FORT WORTH (AP) -- A Parker
County man died after being stung more than 200 times by what officials
identified as a colony of crossbred Africanized bees and honey bees.
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- Mike Cavanaugh, 56, was attacked on his tractor Sept.
16 while mowing a pasture in eastern Parker County. The bees had built
a hive in one of the tires of an abandoned truck that Cavanaugh jarred
while mowing.
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- Cavanaugh apparently struggled during the attack to return
to his wheelchair, officials said. The former excavation worker had been
partially paralyzed in a horseback riding accident years earlier.
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- "He was covered from head to toe with bees,"
his daughter, Ashley Cavanaugh, 19, of Azle, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
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- Firefighters responding to a 911 call found Cavanaugh
slumped unconscious on his tractor and covered with bees, about 10 feet
from his wheelchair, according to Brad Cathey, emergency management coordinator
for Parker County.
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