After months of terror, the six-member wolf pack chargeable for wreaking havoc within the Mahsi area of Bahraich has been killed by villagers.
The final wolf was overwhelmed to dying by villagers in Tamachpur village on Saturday (October 5, 2024) whereas making an attempt to hunt a goat. Following this, the forest division got here to the village and recovered the physique of the wolf. Additional motion will likely be taken after the autopsy of the wolf’s physique.
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“For a lot of days the division’s groups had been making an attempt to catch this final wolf. After we obtained data that there was an animal physique mendacity in a village. We instantly went there with our crew and noticed {that a} useless wolf was mendacity there since there have been marks of wounds on his physique. It’s potential that these villagers or another individuals killed it. We are going to examine this. Solely after investigation will we be capable to say something additional,” Bahraich District Forest Officer Ajit Singh mentioned.
For the previous few months, this pack of six wolves had wreaked havoc throughout many villages within the Mahsi tehsil within the Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh. Earlier, the Uttar Pradesh Forest Division had initiated “Operation Bhediya” to apprehend the pack of wolves chargeable for current assaults in 25-30 villages beneath Mahsi tehsil within the Bahraich vary of Bahraich Forest Division. The Forest Division had captured the fifth ‘killer’ wolf on September 10. With a view to seize the sixth wolf, the Forest Division in Bahraich had put in snap cameras at a lot of the possible habitats of wolves within the space to watch any motion.
Three snap-cameras had been put in in Sikandarpur village round six caves, which native villagers declare to be the habitat of the wolves. 9 individuals had been killed and greater than 40 individuals have been injured till now as a result of assaults by the man-eater wolves in numerous villages of Bahraich.
Printed – October 06, 2024 10:28 am IST