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Submitted to Digg by punchtantra 9/4/2008

In an attempt to destroy a hornet’s nest, a Japanese monk was attacked and dropped the torch he was using to rid his temple.  Flames consumed the temple and the nest.

The Buddhist monk had put lighted rags on a stick into the nest in the temple, but dropped it and ran when the hornets flew out and attacked him, Niigata prefectural (state) police official Yuichi Ozaka said. The fire occurred Wednesday.

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A Japanese monk trying to rid his temple of a hornet’s nest panicked when the hornets attacked him and dropped a torch, burning his temple to the ground.

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