‘Wolves Eat Humans in Afghanistan After Bitter Winter’

KHOST, Afghanistan, 20 March 2005 — At least four Afghans have been devoured by wolves driven down from the hills in search of food during the worst winter in a decade, family members said yesterday. Villagers in Naka, a remote settlement in southeastern Paktia province, found little more than remains and bloodied, shredded clothes when they went looking for 27-year-old Sher Gull and Gull Nawaz, 32.

“They had planned to go to another village to participate in a funeral ceremony. We are sure they were killed by wolves,” Sher Gull’s grieving father Haje Baz Khan told AFP from his mud-brick house. Two other people from Sadar Khel village in the mountainous Mosa Khel district of neighboring Khost province were also killed by wolves, locals said.