Quang Ninh: 12,000 smuggled chickens culled
Quang Ninh (VNA) –
Law-enforcement force in Hai Ha district, Quang Ninh province on February 28
confiscated 12,000 breeding chickens smuggled from China.
The Quang Duc border guard
station in Quang Duc commune, Hai Ha district and Bac Phong Sinh’s customs
division discovered chickens carried in 170 plastic boxes on a truck driven by
Be Van Quy, who lives in Hai Ha district.
All the chickens were destroyed
to prevent the spread of H7N9 bird flu from China.
Quy confessed that he had
transported the chickens for another person from the border to inland for sale.
According to the World Health
Organisation, the ongoing bird flu bout in China is the fifth since 2013. This
is the largest epidemic with 425 cases of infection in human reported, mainly
in Guangxi, Yunnan and Guangdong provinces.
Guangxi and Yunnan share a
border with Vietnam.-VNA