Police caught a man-eating wolf that killed eight people including an infant in India.

Footage shows officers guarding the caged beast after it preyed on seven children and a woman in Bahraich district, Uttar Pradesh state.

Sanjay Srivastava, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlfe), said the wolf was detected through a thermal imaging drone in a forest at 11pm on August 28.

He said: 'It was monitored again using a drone around 5 am. The wolf's footprints were spotted, and the local forest department officials sprang into action.

'After a challenging effort, they successfully captured the wolf from the floodplain of Sisayya village at around 10:45 am. The search for two other wolves is still ongoing.'

The wolf was captured by scaring it into a trap using firecrackers. It was reported to be part of a pack of six terrorising villagers in Bahraich over the past two months.

The wolf was tranquilised and taken to the Gorakhpur Zoo.

Authorities said 'Operation Bhediya' to capture the rest of the pack was ongoing.