Bahraich (UP), Nov 2 (PTI) A female wolf was shot dead by forest department officials here on Sunday, hours after a 15-month-old girl was suspected to have been attacked by the wild animal while she was sleeping beside her mother in the courtyard of their home in Kandauli village of Kaiserganj tehsil.

The girl, Shanvi, was snatched by the animal at 5 am on Sunday. Based on the footprints found in the area, the animal was suspected to be a wolf, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Ram Singh Yadav said.

Though the girl’s body was not found, pieces of flesh and blood stains were recovered from the area, he said.

Forest department shooters tracked the wolf using blood trails, footprints and drones in the direction it had fled after taking the child. The animal was spotted fleeing near Pradhan P

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