After a brief break of a couple of days, sheep killing incident resurfaced in the Niali area of Cuttack district late on Monday night.
According to reports, three rams were killed by and unidentified wild animal or animals at Badakora village under Nuagaon panchayat in the area.
Besides, two more sheep reportedly went missing from the village. A visiting expert team from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun had recently suspected that the killer animals are either wolves, hyenas or jackals or all.
However, the predator wild animals are yet to be caught much to the worry of the villagers, who have been helplessly witnessing the series of killing of their sheep for more than three months.
Meanwhile, a wolf (Rama Siala) was found to be killing sheep at Nakadiha village of Kalapanchal panchayat under Nimapara block. On Tuesday morning villagers saw the wild animal entering the sheep shed of one Sarbeswar Senapati.
They shouted and ran towards the animal following which the animal jumped into a well. On being informed, Niali forest officer Srikanta Behera with a team rushed to the village. The animal was rescued from the well with the help of the village people.Behera confirmed that the animal was a wolf. Both the forest officials and locals believed that killing of sheep could be by wolves. As the wolf was found to be ill, it was sent to Nandankanan for a treatment.
The department will examine the teeth and nail of wolf to conform whether it had been killing the sheep. Hundreds of people gathered at the spot to watch the wolf.