District Magistrate (Aligarh) Rajesh Kumar Singh told UNI over phone that 3,000 chickens have died during the last three days at a single poultry parm in the Kwarasi area, but ruled out that the deaths were triggered by bird flu.
The health deparment has been alerted and a special team of doctors constituted. The samples of the dead birds have also been sent for further tests, Singh added.