UP forest official says revenge-taking habit may be behind Bahraich wolf terror

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Sanjay Pathak, general manager of UP Forest Corporation, said wolves have a tendency to seek revenge if their homes or children have been harmed...

The spate of wolf attacks in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich, which has killed 10 people, might be due to the animals seeking revenge, a senior official of the Forest Department told India Today..

If someone has harmed their home or their children, then they take revenge on humans," Pathak told India Today, underscoring that the angle cannot be ruled out...

The villagers claimed the pups might have been killed due to the flooding, and now the parent wolf was taking revenge..

Uttar Pradesh Forest Minister Arun Saxena said a final operation to capture the wolves had been started...