The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Kurigram

After the detection of bird flu, over 1,500 poultry and pigeons were culled in a pre-dawn drive in Bakshipara and Kirshnapur areas of Sadar upazila early on Friday

Sources at the district administration said they sent four dead chickens, taken from one Ayub Ali's Bakshipara house, to the Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute (BLRI) in Savar for laboratory test.

On Thursday, the district administration received a faxed report from BLRI saying that the chickens died of bird flu disease.

Later, the officials of the district administration and the Health and Livestock Department in a pre-dawn joint drive culled the chickens and pigeons at Bakshipara and Krishnapur.

District Livestock Officer Dr AM Shafiuzzaman told UNB that the poultry-culling drive would be carried out in over 500 poultry farms soon.