Three days after the Khordha district administration began an operation of culling of poultries at Keranga village to stop spreading of the bird flu virus, at least 10 crows were found dead at Salia Sahi in the State capital city on Monday.
Residents of Salia Sahi and nearby areas spotted the carcasses of the crows at the Nilachakranagar vegetable market in the morning.
The news spread in no time and panic griped the area as locals suspected bird flu to be the reason behind the unnatural deaths of the birds.
Notably, no Government official had reached the place to recover the carcasses till the time of writing the report.