-- Samir Umarye BICHOLIM: Five buffaloes were on Saturday died due to poison at Vathadev Bicholim causing a loss of about one lakh to a dairy farmer.
According to the available information a resident from Vathadev found a buffaloes laying dead in a Kulagar. Later, when the residents went to the site they found another four buffaloes laying dead. All the five buffaloes belonged to one Bhanudas Vaze from Vathadev Bicholim. It is learnt that the buffaloes died after poisoning. When the resident tried to contact the Bicholim animal husbandry it was found that the doctor was on leave. "As the doctor at Bicholim animal husbandry was on leave we tried to contact another doctor from Sanquelim and we were told that he has gone to Valpoi" a resident from Vathadev told "if was after really a long time that he arrived."