Police seize chicken from bird flu-detected farm
BHAKTAPUR, JUL 29 - Police have seized live chickens, possibly bird flu infected, being transported to Bhairahawa from a bird flu -detected poultry farm in Bhaktapur on Monday.
The Ganga Jamuna Poultry Farm based in Katunje-2 in Bhaktapur was caught red-handed while transporting 450 live chickens to Bhairahawa.
According to the District Livestock Service Office Bhaktapur, chickens were seized from Sundarighat of Lalitpur district.
The confiscated chickens were later buried in a ditch near Sundarighat, District Livestock Service Office Lalitpur chief Dr. Mugal Prasad Sah said.
Bird flu virus ( H5N1 ) was recently detected in fowls of the poultry farms at Sipadol-9 and Nangkhel-2 of Bhaktapur district.
The locals claimed that over 2,000 chickens have died in the two poultry farms in the past week. The Bhaktapur locals had on yesterday hit the streets after the foul smell started emanating from Nangkhel-2 where the fowls were dumped.
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