(IN): 19 imported pigs killed

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19 imported pigs killed

* AIZAWL, June 11 – Following Mizoram Government's ban on import of birds

and other animals from neighbouring countries due to the avian flu scare,

the State police gunned down 19 pigs imported from Myanmar at Champhai town

on Mizoram-Myanmar border.

 

All the districts bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh had issued prohibitory

orders on import of chicken and pigs as the dreaded bird flu was reported to

have infected animals in both the neighbouring countries.

 

Reports reaching here said while all the smuggled chicken and domesticated

animals were deported to Myanmar, the pigs were declared as 'unclaimed' and

gunned down on Saturday on the orders of the subdivisional magistrate of

Champhai district.

 

The 19 pigs, gunned down at Keifang hill were buried in one place and

guarded by police for three days for fear of exhumation and sale, the

reports said. – PTI