Snowy Owl
Retired in 2010, In Memoriam
Four of the victims were from the village of Daikend in the Salyan region of southern Azerbaijan. Two young women and a boy were members of the same extended family. A third girl was a family friend.
"No one went to the funerals of those girls," said Ilham Salamov, who lives in Daikend and had come into the regional capital Salyan, about 20 km (13 miles) away.
"Everyone is afraid. There is panic in the village. Everyone is scared about bird flu."
(Additional reporting by Pat Reaney in London, Besan Omary in Ramallah and Antoine Lawson in Libreville)
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"No one went to the funerals of those girls," said Ilham Salamov, who lives in Daikend and had come into the regional capital Salyan, about 20 km (13 miles) away.
"Everyone is afraid. There is panic in the village. Everyone is scared about bird flu."
(Additional reporting by Pat Reaney in London, Besan Omary in Ramallah and Antoine Lawson in Libreville)
next page : http://today.reuters.com/news/newsA...RTRUKOC_0_US-BIRDFLU.xml&pageNumber=1&summit=
? Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.