BAHRAICH: After several days of combing, UP forest department teams, which had fanned out in the sugarcane fields of Sisaiya village in Bahraich, managed to capture a male wolf on Thursday. Forest officials believe that it is one of the three ‘killer‘ wolves on the prowl in the district.
The teams are now on the lookout for the remaining two wolves of the pack believed to be behind the killings of seven people – six children and a woman – in the past six weeks in Bahraich district.
Officials said three wolves had been captured earlier after the first casualty was reported, but when the killings didn’t stop, the vigil intensified in the past 10 days. While 25 teams of the forest department are on the job to trap the wolves, over 350 security personnel have been deployed in the terror-stricken villages.
By Wednesday, the forest team had information about the movement of three wolves who could be behind the killings. Principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife), Sanjay Srivastava, said that the wolf which has been captured was first detected by a thermal drone on Wednesday. “It was monitored again through a drone till 5 am on Thursday morning. The wolf’s footprints were spotted, and the local forest department officials sprang into action. They captured the wolf from the floodplain of Sisaiya village around 10.45 am. The search for two other wolves is still on,” he added.
The captured wolf will be taken to Gorakhpur zoo.
Bahraich DFO Ajeet Singh said: “Initially the male wolf was cornered from all sides by different teams and finding no way as soon as it tried to flee towards the river our team first tranquilised it and trapped it in the net.”
The teams are now on the lookout for the remaining two wolves of the pack believed to be behind the killings of seven people – six children and a woman – in the past six weeks in Bahraich district.
Officials said three wolves had been captured earlier after the first casualty was reported, but when the killings didn’t stop, the vigil intensified in the past 10 days. While 25 teams of the forest department are on the job to trap the wolves, over 350 security personnel have been deployed in the terror-stricken villages.
By Wednesday, the forest team had information about the movement of three wolves who could be behind the killings. Principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife), Sanjay Srivastava, said that the wolf which has been captured was first detected by a thermal drone on Wednesday. “It was monitored again through a drone till 5 am on Thursday morning. The wolf’s footprints were spotted, and the local forest department officials sprang into action. They captured the wolf from the floodplain of Sisaiya village around 10.45 am. The search for two other wolves is still on,” he added.
The captured wolf will be taken to Gorakhpur zoo.
Bahraich DFO Ajeet Singh said: “Initially the male wolf was cornered from all sides by different teams and finding no way as soon as it tried to flee towards the river our team first tranquilised it and trapped it in the net.”