Jind (Har): At least 14 ducks were today found dead in a pond in Gatauli village here, creating panic among villagers in the wake of recent death of a goose from Sukhna lake in Chandigarh which was tested positive for bird flu.
Veterinary officers along with Forest department officials and police officials who rushed to the village, buried 11 ducks while the three dead ducks were sent to Jalandhar in Punjab for post mortem.
Veterinary officer Dr Krishn Sharma said 14 Bar-headed Geese were found dead of which three were sent to Jalandhar for post mortem. The reason behind their death could only be ascertained after the post mortem report comes, he said.
Recently, after one of the geese was tested positive for avian influenza, after their death at Chandigarh's Sukhna lake, some 110 ducks were culled to prevent possible spread of bird flu in the region in Chandigarh on December 18.
