Africanized bees sting Mexican police

MEXICO CITY---- At least 70 police officers were hospitalized after so-called Africanized bees swarmed a police shooting range in southern Mexico, authorities said Tuesday.

The attacked occurred Monday in Tapachula, Chiapas, after one of the policemen hit the bees' hive with a bullet, local police officer Miguel Serrano said Tuesday. At least 10 of the 70 officers stung were in serious condition, he said.

Africanized bees, a fierce hybrid strain sometimes referred to as ''killer bees,'' are the result of an experiment to increase honey production in Brazil. A swarm escaped a lab in 1957 and began heading north.