Bahraich, Sept. 21 -- Amid a series of recent wild animal attacks on humans in Bahraich villages, a three-year-old child disappeared in such an encounter in Gandhu Jhalla village of the district's Kaiserganj tehsil.

A search for the boy was taken up after he was dragged into the nearby fields by a wild animal in broad daylight on Saturday, officials said. The boy was yet to be traced when this report was filed.

According to locals, the boy, son of one Raksha Ram, was sitting on the verandah of his house while his mother sat nearby in the courtyard when a "wolf-like" animal pounced and dragged the child away. The mother raised an alarm, but the child had disappeared into the nearby sugarcane fields before the neighbours could arrive.

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