It is unfortunate that a wolf endangered the lives of its own pack, one child died and three are in critical condition in Bahraich district, Uttar Pradesh. It happened in the Chhattarpur village at night between Monday and Tuesday when three children at the ages of three, six and nine were attacked by the wolves. But before the authorities could reacted the wolves relocated to the neighboring village of Raipur, where the picked up a five-year-old child from his house.
In the last two months all sorts of attacks have left eight people dead , seven of them children and one woman. Due to the increasing rate, District Magistrate of Bahraich Monika Rani with the help of public meeting intimated the villagers not to sleep outdoors.
Efforts to protect livestock from attacks by the wolf are being continued with the members of the district, police force and forest authorities. Since March some steps have been taken to curb the situation involving Mahsi tehsil with divisional forest officers of four divisions being actively employed.
Currently real-time cameras in drones are used to observe the mentioned wolf pack and efficient measures are being used to control the direction they will be taking. The forest department has then being applying some scents from the indomitable elephant dung as well as urine since wolves cannot hunt the presence of elephants. IFS officer Akashdeep Badhawan, who is heading the operation, said that the team has located six wolves and of them three have been trapped.
The Divisional Forest Officer Ajit Pratap Singh added that there have been about 30 attacks in the last 40 days, and the wolves prefer to attack children while they are asleep and later the wolves lead the child to a secluded place. Last few nights the Forest Department along with some communities went for night patrolling with torches which forced the wolves change their schedule of attacking.
