HYDERABAD: 2,500 chicks perish

Published March 25, 2006

HYDERABAD, March 24: Over 2,500 chicks died, reportedly of bird flu, in Tando Mohammad Khan on Thursday. According to reports, the chicks died in seven poultry farms. The dead chicks were buried.

The district nazim directed the EDO, health, to ensure no unhealthy chicks were sold in the market and that chicks of various poultry farms were properly tested.

District Development Council chairman Abdul Hakim Memon and Samaji Ittehad chairman Maula Bux Jiskani criticized the health department for failing to take appropriate measures to control bird flu.

PHRF: Activists of Pakistan Human Rights Foundation youth wing staged a protest demonstration and observed a token hunger strike outside the local press club here on Friday.

They were protesting against unjustified increase in the prices of essential consumer goods.

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