Two days after India confirmed that some chickens in Navapur town of Maharashtra—one of the country`s major chicken and egg producing areas—had died of the H5N1 strain of avian flu, officials slaughtered around 1,30,000 chickens in the area.
In pic: A veterinary doctor puts chickens into a pit for burial at Navapur
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In pictures: No one`s chickening out
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