Dutch authorities today issued a warning to visitors to avoid a wooded area in the central part of the country after a child was bitten by a wolf.
The incident happened on Wednesday morning near Austerlitz, but the child was not injured, and a similar case happened 10 days earlier when a wolf bit a girl in the same area on a school trip, the Guardian reports.
In early July, a woman reported to authorities that her poodle had been killed by a wolf in the area, and police believe the same animal was involved in the incidents.
The province of Utrecht has urged visitors not to visit the forest with small children and to be vigilant because of the animal's "atypical and disturbing" behavior.
Utrecht is preparing a license to shoot this wolf and instructions have been published on what to do in the event of an encounter.
Wolves were spotted in the Netherlands in 2015 for the first time in 150 years, and until now they had mostly avoided humans.
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