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Border Agent Saves Pair From Bee Attack in Texas

by Associated Press

   BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS --

   A U.S. Border Patrol agent in Texas is credited with saving a migrant
   woman and her young son who were attacked and covered by thousands of
   bees.
   The agency said in a statement Friday that the agent was patrolling the
   Rio Grande in Brownsville, in southernmost Texas, when bees entered his
   patrol vehicle.
   The agent was looking for the origin of the bees Tuesday when he found
   what he thought was just a bundle of clothing covered in the insects.
   He then realized it was a woman curled into a ball.
   He ordered her to run into his vehicle and discovered she was covering
   her 8-year-old boy.
   The child began to vomit and the agent rushed the pair to a hospital,
   where they're expected to recover.
   Authorities said they were traveling from Guatemala.