1,500 fowls culled in Kurigram

More than 1,500 poultry birds and pigeons were culled in Bakshipara and Kirshnapur areas of Sadar upazila early yesterday following the detection of bird flu.
Sources at the district administration said they had sent four dead chickens, collected from Ayub Ali's Bakshipara house, to 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.
Later, 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 drive would be carried out in over 500 poultry farms soon.