VARANASI, June 1 -- A team of 10 officials of the irrigation department, including engineers, suffered injuries in attack by bees during checking of the gates of Rihand Dam in Pipari area of Sonbhadra on Saturday.

As bees attacked, the officials and people present on the spot started running to save themselves.

According to officials, a team of Irrigation Department, including executive engineer Rupesh Kumar Khare, superintending engineer Sheelchand Upadhyay, subdivisional officer Prasun Uttam, Ravindra Nath Sonkar, Rajiv Kumar Sonkar, Anand Srivastava and many other officials were doing inspection of the gates of Rihand Dam.

As the team reached the top of the dam to check the vibrations in the gate and opened a gate, a beehive got dis...