However Darjeeling was crab by bird flu scare today where 38 chicken were found dead yesterday even as culling operations continued in the affected West Bengal districts. The chicken deaths which occurred at Takdah village were confirmed by Darjeeling magistrate Rajesh Pandey & the blood samples have been sent to a laboratory for testing and the administration would chalk out an action plan after getting the result, he said. The state Animal Husbandry Ministry has raised the culling target to 27 lakh following death of about 4,000 chicken in North 24 Parganas district bordering Kolkata yesterday. Animal Resource Development Minister Anisur Rehman said,”As the target area is increasing every day it is impossible to say how many chicken will have to be killed”. The minister said, “We have sent more than 3500 human samples and none have tested positive”.