High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The wolves of Ashta were a pack of 6 man-eating Indian wolves which between the last quarter of 1985 to January 1986, killed 17 children in the Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh. The pack consisted of two adult males, one adult female, one subadult female and two cubs. Initially thought to be a lone animal, the fear caused by the wolves had serious repercussions on the life of the villagers within their hunting range. Farmers became too frightened to leave their huts, leaving crops out of cultivation, and several parents prohibited their children from attending school, for fear that the man-eaters would catch them on the way. So great was their fear, that some village elders doubted the man-eaters were truly wolves at all, but Shaitans. With the exception of the cubs, which were adopted by Pardhi tribesmen, all wolves were killed by hunters and forest officials.