India, Sept. 14 -- Two siblings in southwestern China died after suffering hundreds of wasp stings, leading police to detain a local farmer on charges of negligent homicide.

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The incident took place on June 28 in a village in Muding county, Yunnan province, where a seven-year-old boy and his two-year-old sister were attacked by swarms of wasps, according to The Paper, as cited by the South China Morning Post.

The children lived with their grandparents while their parents worked as migrant labourers in eastern Zhejiang province. On the day of the incident, their grandmother had taken them to a cornfield for farm work. While she was occup...