17-09-2012 08:27 AM | Pakistan

Pakistan to cull 21,000 infected sheep

Pakistan is to cull thousands of Australian sheep after they were found to be infected with harmful bacteria, the city's top administration official said on Sunday.

"The provincial live stock ministry ordered 21,268 sheep which arrived from Bahrain to be culled after laboratory tests showed bacterial presence of salmonella and actinomyces in them," Roshan Shaikh told AFP.
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