Authorities in India are still trying to trap two wolves from a pack that's killed eight people, most of them young children, in Uttar Pradesh state.
New Delhi — One of the wolves from a pack that has killed eight people in a forested district of north India was caught Thursday, officials said. The victims, seven children and a woman, were killed by the wolves over the past six weeks in the Bahraich district of India 's Uttar Pradesh state.Thousands of people in dozens of villages in the district have spent sleepless nights since the first attack on July 17, when a one-year-old boy was killed by the wolves in Sikandarpur village.
'On the basis of pugmarks , drone footage, we came to know that there were around six stray wolves, and hence we installed the traps accordingly,' Vineet Singh, Divisional Forest Officer for the Bahraich district, told reporters Thursday.He said the first wolf was captured on Aug. 19 and the latest on Thursday in the Mahsi area of the district.
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