The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Bogra

Some 6,000 chickens were culled at Sahapur village in Sadar upazila Tuesday night following the detection of avian influenza virus in a poultry farm.

Sources said Nakul Saha, owner of the poultry farm, took several dead chickens to Joypurhat for laboratory test on suspicion that they might have died of bird flu.

However, the laboratory test confirmed that the chickens died of avian influenza.

Later Tuesday, the chickens were buried in presence of district Livestock Resources officer Dr Shahadat Hossain, magistrate Harun-ur-Rashid and Sadar thana OC Hasan Shamim Iqbal.