It became known how the man-eating wolves that tore apart 9 children were found and eliminated
A pack of man-eating wolves that had been terrorizing residents of Uttar Pradesh for several months has been eliminated in India. Animals came to villages at night and attacked sleeping people. They managed to tear to pieces nine children and a woman, and dozens of people were seriously injured. Hundreds of hunters searched for predators; state authorities allowed wolf hunting for the first time in half a century, but nothing helped. The leader hid the longest – a lame wolf, who was considered the instigator of the attacks. He was caught only in October.
The lame wolf hid from hunters with drones for almost a month and continued to attack
Since September 10, more than 160 forest rangers equipped with the latest technology have been searching for the lame leader. To track the beast, the surrounding area was monitored with drones. Infrared cameras were installed in the villages, recording even at night. In addition, nine shooters were deployed to the district.
Despite this, the wolf managed to hide from his pursuers. Eyewitnesses attributed to him fantastic cunning and cunning. One night he again attacked the child, who was put to sleep on the roof. His parents believed that nothing threatened him there.
Since wolves do not climb walls, roofs were considered a safe place. The lame leader demonstrated that it was a mistake
The beast climbed a ladder onto a nearby building, and from there jumped onto the roof with the sleeping child. He grabbed the boy’s neck with his teeth and tried to drag him away, but could not. The victim was rescued and taken to an area hospital with serious injuries.
On September 18, a lame wolf was spotted on a farm five kilometers from the village of Sisaya-Churamani, which was particularly damaged by the attacks. He wasn’t alone. Local residents believe that he managed to reassemble the flock to replace the lost one.
The villagers saw a pack of four wolves in the mango orchard on my farm around four in the evening. One of them was limping. There’s a wolf’s den nearby. And when it rains or rivers overflow their banks, animals often come out
Forestry department staff visited the scene and indeed found wolf tracks. However, it was not possible to confirm that it was the lame wolf who was there.
After a new attack on the child, the crowd overtook the lame leader and surrounded him on all sides.
The lame wolf came to the village again on Saturday, October 5th. This was his last hunt. In the dead of night, he managed to get into a residential building, got to the bed on which a three-year-old boy and his mother were sleeping, but at the last moment he came across a mosquito net.
The noise woke up the woman, the wolf decided not to risk it and started running. He ran out into the street and tried to drag away a goat tied in the yard.
The woman began to call for help. The wolf was first chased by neighbors from the same village, then residents of surrounding villages joined the crowd. In the end they managed to surround the wolf from all sides and kill him.
The forestry department, which had been unsuccessfully pursuing the wolf since September 10, learned about the incident only in the evening. Representatives of the department who went to the scene found the remains of two animals on the street: a wolf with numerous wounds and a goat, which he had grabbed. The predator’s body was taken for an autopsy.
For many days, the detachments of our department tried to catch the last wolf. When we received a signal that there was a corpse of an animal lying in the village, we immediately went there. We saw a wolf lying there, whose body was covered with wounds. Perhaps the villagers killed him or someone else. We will investigate. And only after investigation it will be possible to say something more
How writes India Today, the forest department has not yet confirmed that the wolf was a man-eater. According to Ajit Singh, there were no new victims after the wolf was captured.
A pack of man-eating wolves has been attacking residents of the poorest district of Uttar Pradesh since March
About the first human casualties as a result of a wolf attack in Bahraich district it became known in March, then there was a long lull. The wolves returned on July 17th. At night, the pack entered the village of Nakva and dragged away a two-year-old girl who was sleeping in the yard with her mother and father. writes Hindustan Times.
Villagers who rushed to help found her 300 meters from the house. The wolves managed to eat the legs and lower half of the body
Floodlights and loudspeakers were installed in the affected villages, but this did not scare the animals. Authorities urged people to take shelter at night on roofs or in enclosed spaces where predators cannot enter, to securely lock doors and not to go out alone.
The problem was that not everyone could afford it. Bahraich is perhaps the poorest district in the state, so many of their houses had neither doors nor the means to make them. To protect people, village council buildings and schools were temporarily turned into shelters where people could shelter overnight.
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Judging by CCTV footage, the pack consisted of six wolves, including one lame. On August 19, hunters managed to track down and neutralize the first wolf. Then, with the help of unmanned vehicles and thermal imagers, three more were found and caught, the last one on Thursday, August 29.
Only two wolves remained at large, but that was enough. On September 1, they wounded two women and tore to pieces a three-year-old girl. The attack on the child occurred at four o’clock in the morning. The mother, awakened by the crying of her youngest daughter, realized that the eldest had disappeared. “We chased the wolf, but he ran away,” she said.
The body was found a kilometer from the village. The wolves managed to eat the hands of the missing girl
On September 2, the attacks continued. In the morning, wolves broke into a house located in another village and bit an elderly woman. She was taken to hospital with wounds to her neck and head. On the night of Tuesday, September 3, the animals attacked a five-year-old girl, but she was saved.
The search for the fifth wolf lasted another ten days. They were able to catch him only on September 10.
Experts are still scratching their heads about what made wolves hunt people
Amid ongoing attacks, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, has allowed wolves to be shot on sight. This is an unprecedented step: wolf hunting has been banned in India for more than 50 years, since 1972.
Before Adityanath’s order, predators were not shot even after attacking people. They were caught alive, euthanized with tranquilizer darts, and transferred to a zoo. Of the five man-eating wolves that were caught in August, four are still kept in zoos (another did not survive transportation).
No one knew why the animals began to attack people. “This kind of aggressive behavior by wolves is not normal,” a forest department official said in September.
The forestry department did not rule out that attacks were not only carried out by wolves. According to supporters of this version, this is indicated by uncharacteristic tactics, which are revealed by the characteristics of the damage to some bodies. They could have been caused not by wolves, but by honey badgers – relatively small but ferocious predators related to badgers, otters and martens. In India, there are known cases where they dug up graves and devoured human remains.
Honey badger attacks on people in India have not yet been reported, but similar rumors circulated in Iraq: in 2007, residents of Basra claimed that in the vicinity of the city there were honey badgers accustomed to human flesh
Another version, which was considered by the forestry department, explained the behavior of wolves as revenge. If their leader became lame after encountering humans, this could give the pack a motive to attack.
Senior forest department official Sanjay Pathak had a similar view. He believed that wolves were taking revenge for lost cubs. According to him, at the beginning of the year, residents of Bahraich saw a wolf’s den about two kilometers from the sugar cane fields, in the vicinity of which many attacks later took place. However, the lair was flooded by the overflowing river. Not a single wolf cub survived, and for some reason the wolves blame the humans for this.
Wolves are prone to revenge. If someone harms their home or their cubs, they will take it out on people
Pathak recalled a similar incident that occurred in Uttar Pradesh in 1996. Then, as a result of attacks by cannibal wolves, dozens of people also suffered. After the investigation, it turned out that before this, farmers had found and destroyed a den with a litter of wolf cubs.
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