Spanish Man Dies After Being Stung by ‘Murder Hornet’

A researcher holds a dead Asian giant hornet in Blaine, Wash., on April 23, 2020. Karla Salp/Washington State Department of Agriculture/AP

A Spanish man reportedly died after an encounter with a giant Asian hornet near his home in northern Spain on May 10.

The 54-year-old man from Villestro in the Spanish region of Galicia was apparently stung on the eyebrow by a “murder hornet.”