2 children killed, woman injured in wild animal attacks
Bahraich/Lucknow, Sept. 13 -- Panic has gripped the Mahsi tehsil of Bahraich district again after two children were killed and an elderly woman was grievously injured in wild animal attacks reported in the last four days. Last year, at least nine people, mostly children, were killed in wolf attacks in the area.
The most recent incident occurred around 3 am on Friday in Bhauri Bahorwa village under the Baundi police station limits, where a wild animal snatched a three-month-old girl from her mother's lap when she was sleeping in the verandah. Hours later, the child's mutilated body was discovered nearly 600 metres away in a sugarcane field.
At Babhnanpurwa hamlet in Majhara Taukli village, one Shiv Pyari, 65, was attacked when she was rearing her cattle on Thursday night. She was undergoing treatment at the Bahraich Medical College.
On Tuesday, a five-year-old girl was killed in a similar attack by a wild animal in Paragpurwa hamlet of the same village. An overnight search with drones was launched. Her mutilated body was recovered from a sugarcane field the next morning....
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