Elderly couple killed by colony of bees

Bees swarmed an elderly couple at their South Texas ranch, killing both and injuring their son, officials said.

Jim Hogg County sheriff’s deputies said 90-year-old William T. Steele was spraying insecticide on a bees’ nest when the bees attacked him, his 92-year-old wife, Myrtle Steele, and their 67-year-old son, Richard Steele.