One of five Turkish children being tested for bird flu has died and another is in a critical condition, the chief physician at the hospital where they were being treated says.

One of five Turkish children being tested for bird flu has died and another is in a critical condition, the chief physician at the hospital where they were being treated said today.

Close to 7,000 people in the south-eastern Turkish town of Malatya needed hospital treatment in an outbreak of diarrhoea caused by drinking contaminated water, CNN-Turk television reported.