A fresh wolf attack occurred in Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh, on Sunday night, in which a 13-year-old boy sustained injuries to his neck and shoulders.

According to the forest department, its teams have captured five of the six wolves that had terrorised the area since March, killing 10 children and wounding 65 people. It claims the lone remaining wo

“Wolf attacked an 11-year-old girl tonight. The girl was admitted to CHC Mahasi and is under treatment,” the Mahasi CHC in charge was quoted as saying to news agency ANI. Earlier on Tuesday, the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department successfully captured the fifth killer wolf, while one remains elusive. They took the wolf to a rescue shelter.

In response to the ongoing wolf menace in Uttar Pradesh, Bahraich's Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Ajit Singh on Friday said that there is an ongoing effort by the forest department to catch the sixth wolf.

"Some people did not have doors in their houses, so the administration has installed doors in their homes. I have also done a survey. The situation is normal, and the state government along with the concerned teams deployed will work until this district becomes danger free,

A forest department team captured another wolf on Tuesday, which was a part of the pack of six wolves that terrorised residents of Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich.

The latest incident comes days after an 11-year-old girl was injured when a wolf attacked her last week in Bahraich's Mahasi region. The state government has also launched 'Operation Bhediya' in Bahraich to capture a pack of six wolves that have been terrorising 50 villages across the district.

As the authorities in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich continued their search for a sixth 'killer' wolf, two women in Mahasi village got injured in an attack allegedly by a wolf on Thursday night.

In yet another wolf attack in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich, a 13-year-old boy was attacked while sleeping on the terrace of his home.