A nine-year-old girl has astonished medics after surviving an attack by hundreds of bees as she scrambled from the wreckage of a car crash that killed both her granddad and her great-grandfather.
Alice Soares Albino had just managed to crawl out of the crushed car after it fell off a cliff beside the ES-130 Highway, in Espirito Santo in Brazil on the afternoon of Sunday, 11th February.
But as she tried to get help, she was immediately attacked by a swarm of bees from a hive that had apparently been disturbed by the crash.
Alice suffered more than 500 agonising stings before rescuers managed to drive off the swarm.
She was rushed to hospital in Colatina for emergency treatment and is said to be conscious and stable, according to local media reports.
Police said her granddad Jose Pereira Novais, 77, had lost control of the car and it plummeted off a cliff killing both him and Alice’s 96-year-old great-grandfather Paulo Soares Ribeiro.
Alice’s father Celso Ruella Albino told local media: “Despite the severity of the car accident, she has practically no scratches.
“I think what made it worse were the bee stings, due to her bravery in getting out of the car to ask for help.
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“And in the middle of her journey, the bees, the swarm of bees, they started to sting her.”
Celso put his daughter’s survival down to divine intervention. He said: “Because of the situation there, because of the place where the accident happened. If there had not been a divine action, my daughter would not be here today.”
Alice’s mother Celso, who is a nurse, is by her side at the hospital, according to local media.
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