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As far as our information tells, there are only two of them left, Bahraichs district forest officer (DFO) Ajit Pratap Singh said.. Over 400 officials including 25 teams from the forest, panchayati raj, prantiye rakshak dal (PRD), revenue, village development and agriculture department along with jawans of the provincial armed constabulary (PAC), UP police and panchayatsahayaks have been manning different duty points across the 40 villages of the tehsil gripped by fear...
We hope to catch the remaining wolves in the next two to three days, he said.. Bahraich deputy ranger Deepak Singh told ThePrint that drone cameras deployed for surveillance in the area have captured pictures of the wolves roaming around both in a pack and alone.. The wolves have been moving in a family..
If the DNA matches human DNA, that would confirm which wolf or wolves have turned man-eater, he said.. Jhala said the attacks reminded him of similar attacks that took place in 1996 when a spate of children were reported to have been killed in the Pratapgarh, Jaunpur and Sultanpur districts..
Wolves are shy and are naturally afraid of a human being but if a wolf does attack a human, it is simply because the predatory animal is short of prey and is possibly starving, he said.. Kishans mother Sheela Debi outside her home..
The Katarnia Ghat wildlife sanctuary, which falls in the Terai region of Bahraich and the upper Gangetic plain is at a distance of about 100 km from Mahsi tehsil while the Dudhwa National Park is at a distance of about 117 km from here.. Several of the Mahsi villages, which have been affected by the wolf attacks are either located in the floodplains of the Ghaghara or have the Ghaghara passing through them...
