A hero TV presenter rescued a disabled boy who was enveloped in a swarm of bees when it attacked police, press and protesters outside the Supreme Court in Kenya.
Inside court, judges were delivering the full judgement of last month’s annulled election polls while a large crowd of government and anti-government supporters gathered outside.
It is believed that either a protestor brought a bee hive in a can and unleashed it or another protester disturbed a bee hive that was attached to a lamp post by shaking it violently.
Although the exact cause of the swarming is not currently known, thousands of angry bees descended on hundreds of people who had to run for cover.
Videos show people being attacked by teh swarm, including soldiers and armed police who ran for cover.
There were shouts and shrieks as the bees repeatedly stung their victims then horror as the swarm descended on a disabled boy in a wheelchair who was unable to run away.
As they stung him repeatedly he screamed in terror under a heaving mass of bees who sting so violently they can see off elephants.
In desperation, the street boy known only as Amos, threw himself out the wheelchair onto the ground but there was no escape as the swarm gathered over him a second time.
But then KBC TV anchor Victor Muyakane rushed into action and ran over to the boy and lifted him up and ran with him to try and find safety.
Thousands of angry bees descended on hundreds of people who had to run for cover desperately waving their arms or jackets or newspapers round their bare heads
Crowds had gathered outside the Supreme Court in Kenya while judges delivered the full judgement of last month’s annulled election polls
He was stung repeatedly as bees swarmed over him but fought off the agonising pain to try and save the boy’s life as he carried him towards ambulances.
Others came to help him and finally a medic, swathed head to toe in black clothing, was able to get to him.
Onlookers threw buckets of water at the bees to drive them off.
After saving the boy’s life he described to Citizen TV his ‘fight or flight’ moment saying everything inside him urged him to run away but he could not leave the disabled boy.
He said:’I just saw this swarm of bees. I saw hundreds of them around him.
‘His face and head, they were all over him. His upper torso was just bees and he looked like he had a helmet on his head made out of a live swarm of bees.
‘At first there was an unearthly silence and everyone was running and then I heard his screams full of agony and anguish. I will never forget them. I had to help.
‘I was trying to calm him down but if you opened your mouth you spit out bees. His tongue was swollen and there were bees in his mouth and my heart was pounding.
Videos show people being attacked including soldiers and armed police running for cover. There was shouts and shrieks as the bees repeatedly stung their victims
The country’s Supreme Court had been in session explaining why they annulled President Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory in the August 8 elections. A fresh election is set for October 18
‘I was thinking can I get him to safety and there were bees all over my face. The pain was being turned up like volume 5,6,7,8 until it was so much there was no more pain.
‘I got him away to another person and went back for his wheelchair’ he said.
St John’s Ambulance was on hand in case of violence amongst the protestors and one of their workers swathed himself him in black cloth and ran out to tend to Amos.
They put the badly stung teenager, who lives on the streets and who is disabled from the waist down, into an ambulance and rushed him to nearby Kenyatta National Hospital.
He was given treatment for 50 to 60 stings and was later discharged
Now brave Victor is hoping to track Amos down on the streets of Nairobi to offer him more help.
The videos show chaotic scenes outside the court as everyone flees the swarming bees.
The country’s Supreme Court had been in session explaining why they annulled President Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory in the August 8 elections. A fresh election is set for October 18.