About 50 families living on the banks of the canal in Hasanchak Bangra Ward 8 of Sherpur Panchayat of Muzaffarpur are not coming out of their houses. Daily wage earners are not even able to muster the courage to leave their families alone and go to the market. They are being given ration with the help of public representatives.
The terror of the ferocious jackal continues in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur. People in several villages adjoining the city are staying awake at night. Even after this, the jackal has bitten dozens of people. On Friday night, the jackal attacked Awadhesh Singh, the guard of the National Litchi Research Center in Muzaffarpur, and badly injured him by biting his hand. Director Dr. Vikas Das said that the guard was immediately taken to PHC Mushahari. He was given an injection for rabies there. He has been sent back to the PHC due to swelling and pain in his hand.
Awadhesh Singh, a resident of Paru in the district, said that the jackal had pierced his right hand with four to five teeth. The bleeding was not stopping. The bleeding stopped after the dressing at the PHC. Meanwhile, the guards posted at the centre said that the women had made a hole in the boundary wall of the research centre by breaking it to cut grass. A few days ago the hole was closed, but three more holes have been made, due to which jackals along with dogs have started entering inside.
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After the jackal attack, guarding in the evening has become quite dangerous. The scientists and workers here are scared to go out of the residential complexes inside the center. However, more than 150 scientists, workers, guards and their families living here are in panic after the information of jackal being inside the center.
More than 50 families are not coming out of their homes due to fear
About 50 families living on the banks of the canal in Hasanchak Bangra Ward 8 of Sherpur Panchayat of Muzaffarpur are not coming out of their houses. People who do daily wage work are not even able to muster the courage to leave their families alone and go to the market. They are being given ration with the help of public representatives. At the same time, the condition of the people injured due to jackal attack has also started deteriorating. Pus has started flowing from the wounds of more than half a dozen injured. They are also afraid of infection. Ward member Mohammad Wasim Akhtar Shauki said that the most panic is among the people living on the banks of the canal. The villagers are keeping a vigil 24 hours a day. Jackals are seen continuously in the number of three to five in Ward 8. At the same time, a day before, jackals were seen in a group in Chainpur Wajid Panchayat. People stand in dozens with bamboo at night. Villagers say that the forest department is merely doing a formality in the name of mikeing and catching jackals.
Jackal terror for 10 days
The local people told that the health department does not even come to inquire about the condition of the injured. Meanwhile, the forest department officials say that the team is continuously working to catch the jackal. Food is also put in the cage for the jackal. It is to be told that there is terror of jackal in the villages of three panchayats for the last 10 days. The doors of many houses are being closed after six o’clock. People do not come out after evening due to fear, those whose houses are like huts are forced to stay awake at night. So far the jackal has attacked more than 20 people.
School student also attacked
On Wednesday, a jackal attacked a third class student of Madhya Vidyalaya situated on the bank of Tirhut canal near the block chowk, in which he escaped narrowly. The student did not go to school on Thursday. On Friday, when the teacher Dr. Apoorva asked him the reason for not coming to school, the student told that on Wednesday a jackal had chased him. He ran to save himself, in which his heel got hurt. Even on Thursday his heel was swollen.
