Wolves continue to unleash terror in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district as a five-year-old girl was attacked by a man-eater animal late at night on Monday. The girl was sent to Community Health Centre, Mahai for treatment, said the in-charge of the health centre.
The girl went to sleep along with her grandmother after dinner when a wolf came and attacked her, said the girl's relative Wasi Ahmad.
The canine ran away after family members screamed, he said.
Bahraich has been reeling under the wolf scare since March this year, killing more than 10 people in the district. The scare has now reached the neighbouring district of Sitapur where similar attacks were reported.
A two-year-old girl was killed while two women were injured in three separate wolf attacks in the Mahsi area in the last two days. Two-year-old Anjali was sleeping with her mother outside their home in the Garethi Gurudutt Singh village of the Hardi area on Sunday when she was taken by a wolf.
Her mutilated body was found a kilometre away from the village, said the official, adding that both her hands had been eaten by the wolf.
The district administration and forest department officials have launched 'Operation Bhediya' to catch the wolves. Bahraich District Magistrate Monika Rani said the administration had already captured four wolves and was working to catch others.
In a bid to catch the wolves, forest officials are using colourful teddy dolls soaked in children's urine as a bait to capture them. The dolls have been strategically placed near the riverbanks, close to the wolves' resting places and dens, and are being soaked in children's urine to simulate the natural human scent.