India, Dec. 8 -- An infant was taken away by a wolf in the Kaiserganj area here on Sunday, triggering an intense search operation by forest teams and villagers using drone cameras, officials said. The child and the predator remain untraced, they said.

According to villagers, the missing four-month-old infant, Subhash, son of Santosh and Kiran of Mallahanpurwa, was sleeping beside his mother when the wolf entered the house around 1.30 am.

"The predator silently walked in, lifted the baby from the mother's arms, clamped him in its jaws and fled," a resident said. Villagers chased the animal but it vanished with the child. Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Ram Singh Yadav confirmed the incident.

The incident is the latest in a series of wol...