Overview
- Authorities confirmed a suspected wolf attack killed a five-year-old boy named Star in Malhanpurwa on Friday, with pugmarks at the site and eyewitness accounts supporting the finding.
- A 10-month-old girl taken from her mother in the Shravasti area was later found dead, and forest officials report no concrete evidence linking that death to a wolf as they examine signs of a possible different predator.
- The fatalities lift the toll from suspected wolf attacks in the Bahraich cluster to at least nine in roughly three months, with most victims reported as children.
- Forest teams redeployed after mid-November operations had ended, intensifying drone surveillance, camera traps, cages, combing patrols and the use of shooters to locate the animals.
- Officials describe unusually bold, daytime activity around sugarcane fields that complicates tracking, and villagers report keeping children indoors as fear persists across affected hamlets.