A man and his teenage son died after both were stung over 100 times by a swarm of Asian giant hornets, often called “murder hornets,” while ziplining at a lush jungle resort in Laos last month, according to reports.

Daniel Owen, a 46-year-old originally from Idaho, and his 15-year-old son Cooper, were visiting the Southeast Asian country from neighbouring Vietnam, where he is the director of an international school, when the tragic accident occurred on Oct. 15, according to The London Times.

As the father and son were making their way down a tree at Green Jungle Park, an eco-adventure resort in the northern part of the country, they were swarmed by a brood of the aggressive and territorial hornets with stingers up to six millimetres long.

Once on the ground, they were rushed to the Pha

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