British tourists using a country house in Mouliders, near Cognac where injured after they were attacked by thousands of bees.

One woman suffered over five hundred stings, with bees covering her hair and face, after visiting the art gallery where the bees descended from a pigeon loft.

The woman in her 20’s and two other tourists where rushed to hospital while ambulance men treated others at the scene.

A shocked witness said the attack was “like a scene from an Alfred Hitchcock horror film”.

Tourists tried to hide in parked cars but the bees where relentless chasing and stinging them furiously, two ambulance workers were also badly stung.

A service spokesman said “The tourists had stings all over their bodies.”

The Britons are said to be recovering well.