Bahraich (UP), Oct 6 (PTI) The last of the pack of six wolves that had caused terror in Mahsi tehsil was killed by locals at Tamachpur village in this district, officials said on Sunday.

The wolf that was killed under Ramgaon police station late on Saturday evening is a female and not crippled as previously suspected, they said.

The wolf’s body has been sent for post-mortem, officials said.

“Late on Saturday night, we received information that people had killed a wolf at Tamachpur village under Ramgaon police station in Mahsi tehsil. When we got there, we found the dead wolf and the bodies of a goat. There were injuries on the wolf’s body and it was bleeding,” Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Ajit Pratap Singh told PTI.

“Upon closer inspection, we discovered that the dead wolf was an adult female. When we inquired, we learned that the wolf had entered the inhabited area and was carrying away a goat. On the way, the villagers surrounded him and killed him. The dead wolf has been taken to the sanctuary office for post-mortem,” he added.

When asked whether the killed female wolf was lame or not, the DFO said that “there was never a ‘lame wolf’ in the pack of man-eating wolves.”

Some villagers of Tamachpur village told reporters that the wolf had tried to attack an innocent child who was sleeping next to his mother in the courtyard of a house in the village, but when he heard the mother’s screams, the wolf ran away and attacked a goat there.

Later, the villagers surrounded the wolf and beat it to death, they said.

Earlier on September 10, a fifth wolf was captured as part of the ‘Operation Bhediya’ campaign underway in Bahraich’s Mahsi tehsil to capture a pack of six wolves that has killed eight people and more than injured twenty others. Four other wolves were also previously rescued in the district.

Operation Bhediya

Since July 17, the ‘Operation Bhediya’ campaign has been underway in the area to capture a pack of six wolves terrorizing 50 villages in Mahsi tehsil of Bahraich district.

At least eight people, including seven children, have been killed in suspected attacks by these wolves.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had earlier conducted an aerial survey of the area on September 15 and met families of those killed in the recent wolf attacks.

He assured the residents of Mahis tehsil that the forest department, district administration and police will continue to work until the wolf menace ends.