Deputy Director of Animal Husbandry Department Ram Autar Kuashik said a team of veterinary doctors, which visited Ladhuwas village, near here yesterday, found that the buffaloes had died of a contagious disease.
Over a dozen other buffaloes were lying ill at Ahmedpur Partal village, near Kosli, he said, adding that remaining buffaloes and other milch cattle in the villages had been inoculated against the disease.