Forest rangers in India have deployed drones to track wolves after nine people, mostly children, were killed by the animals in recent weeks, officials said Sunday.

The latest victim was a 10-month-old girl who was snatched by a wolf in Bahraich district of northern Uttar Pradesh state on Saturday while she was sleeping beside her mother, they said.

The child was later found dead in a field.

A day earlier, a five-year-old boy was snatched in plain sight of his mother from outside their home.

The child, found mauled in a sugarcane field, died on the way to hospital.

Officials said the attack followed the same pattern seen across a cluster of villages reporting similar incidents since September.

The latest deaths raise the toll from suspected wolf attacks in Bahraich to at least nine in

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