Heavy rains and strong winds during the persisting deep depression caused power cuts for three days in certain locations in Purbasthali, Kalna of East Burdwan that invited a road block by the aggrieved residents on Monday.
The Forest officials, after inspection, suspected that the deaths were caused due to avian botulism caused by water-soluble toxin produced by the pesticides sprayed in the paddy-fields by the local farmers.
In 1931, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had visited Purbasthali in East Burdwan district and delivered a fiery speech to exhort the local freedom fighters
