An Indonesian man died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu after coming into contact with his neighbour’s infected chickens, a senior health official said today, citing local laboratory tests.

HEALTH authorities in China and Indonesia each reported a woman killed by a deadly strain of bird flu, and the virus has spread to another new country, Azerbaijan.

A 20-year-old woman in southern China has died of bird flu.

A junior school in western China collapsed on more than 50 students, killing at least five and injuring dozens more, authorities and a human rights group said today.