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. The second attack a week later saw the wolves snatch a three-year-old girl from a courtyard where she was sleeping at night. Her badly mutilated remains were discovered in a nearby field, spreading a wave of terror across the district.
Six more people were killed in similar attacks over the next few weeks, with the wolves sneaking into the yards of people who were sleeping outside their homes. It’s common in rural India for people to sleep outdoors to beat the summer heat.
An infant was killed in the latest attack Tuesday night.
A wolf is seen in a file photo taken in a jungle area of India. Anwar Attar/iStock/Getty
On Thursday, officials with the Uttar Pradesh forestry department said they had captured one of the wolves from the pack of six. The animal was tranquilized and then sent to a zoo. Three others were captured earlier, but two remain on the loose, according to the officials.
