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Illegal chicken racket busted in Jeddah
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
JEDDAH
Jeddah mayoralty has uncovered an illegal chicken slaughtering and sale racket that was making supplies to restaurants in the city.
There?s a ban on sale or rearing of live birds in populated areas until such time Saudi Arabia is declared free of bird flu which had broken out in the Central Province late last year.
The mayoralty?s Water Tankers Monitoring Directorate discovered the unlicensed chicken slaughtering, plucking and marketing facility.
Four illegal residents - three east Asians and an Arab -were arrested on the charge of running the network. They confessed to supplying shops and restaurants in Al-Aziziya and Al-Faysaliya districts with about 1,000 chickens per day.
The director of the Water Tanker Monitoring Department, Abdullah Al-Solami, said their patrols were monitoring a water tanker that was heading to a mountainous area northwest of the Jeddah (sewage dump) when they came across the complex of three poultry pens and a room for plucking machines. The tanker was supplying treated water to the place.
The mayoralty seized and destroyed 700 slaughtered chickens.
http://www.bahraintribune.com/ArticleDetail.asp?ArticleId=191286&CategoryId=2
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
JEDDAH
Jeddah mayoralty has uncovered an illegal chicken slaughtering and sale racket that was making supplies to restaurants in the city.
There?s a ban on sale or rearing of live birds in populated areas until such time Saudi Arabia is declared free of bird flu which had broken out in the Central Province late last year.
The mayoralty?s Water Tankers Monitoring Directorate discovered the unlicensed chicken slaughtering, plucking and marketing facility.
Four illegal residents - three east Asians and an Arab -were arrested on the charge of running the network. They confessed to supplying shops and restaurants in Al-Aziziya and Al-Faysaliya districts with about 1,000 chickens per day.
The director of the Water Tanker Monitoring Department, Abdullah Al-Solami, said their patrols were monitoring a water tanker that was heading to a mountainous area northwest of the Jeddah (sewage dump) when they came across the complex of three poultry pens and a room for plucking machines. The tanker was supplying treated water to the place.
The mayoralty seized and destroyed 700 slaughtered chickens.
http://www.bahraintribune.com/ArticleDetail.asp?ArticleId=191286&CategoryId=2