The District Officials of Baligubadle of Hawd Region, issued a public awareness message to district-residents to refrain from drinking water from the public water reservoirs were flocks of birds have been discovered dead

These birds, which are a kind new to Somaliland, are believed to have been on their migration-and, somehow resulted in this unfortunate circumstance. The Somali-State of Ethiopia also issued a similar message to residents of Harshin, where a similar occurrence took place.
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In an exclusive interview with the Mayor of Baligubadle, he spoke on the flock of birds found dead in the water reservoirs.
"We contacted the Ministry of Health as well as The Ministry of Livestock, there have also been public awareness messages on Radio Hargeisa urging citizens to refrain from drinking from those specific locations".
The Mayor of Baligubadle also added that the number of birds found in the reservoir were of tremendous numbers.