The boys were taking a shortcut through a canyon off the 8300 block of Via Panacea around 3 p.m when the insects started attacking them, according to 10News.Medics treated the victims and took them to Pomerado Medical Center as officers closed off the area, searched for any other injured people and called for pest control crews, San Diego police Sgt. Tom Carmody said. The boys have since been released and are in good condition.Ken Platt, who lives near the canyon, used a garden host to try and rescue the three boys."I grabbed the hose and sprayed him off -- he probably had 30 or 40 bees on him. He said there was another young man still in the canyon. So, I came back here as quickly as I could and the young man was lying on the side of the hill ... it was like the worse science-fiction movie. His shirt was off -- his body, his face, his eyes -- everything was covered (with bees)," Platt told 10News.The Agriculture Department is running tests to determine if the bees were Africanized honey bees, also known as killer bees.Authorities located the hive and sprayed it with a substance that will kill the bees. A beekeeper told 10News there were about 60,000 bees living in the hive.
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