LAGATAR24 NETWORK
Dumka, July 8: A total of 48 bovines kept in a school room suffocated to death in Chilgo village under Amrapara police station of Pakur district on Friday sparking great disappointment among the cattle owners.
The residents of Tala Tola in the village used to keep their cows and bulls in the school room during the night due to shortage of cattle sheds in their homes.
“The villagers were surprised to find all the bovines except a calf lying dead on the floor,” village mukhiya Sunita Murmu said, adding that the villagers had turned a deaf ear to her suggestion of not using the abandoned school for the purpose.
Murmu further said that both the windows of the room measuring 150 square feet were closed which might have caused suffocation and resulted in their death.
A medical team led by Dr Kamlesh Prasad, the animal husbandry officer of Hiranour block rushed to Chilgo village to ascertain the cause of the deaths of the bovines.
“Prima facie the deaths of the cattle appear to have been caused by suffocation as the room where they were kept is too small to accommodate all of them,” the district animal husbandry officer, K K Bharti, said. Swabs of the dead bovines would be sent for forensic examination in Ranchi, he added.
