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Nov 19, 2015 
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Heroic Police Dog Diesel Killed By Terrorist
The heroic police dog Diesel was blown up by a suicide bomber during the siege in Paris.
The seven-year-old Belgian Shepherd died this morning in a firefight with suspected ISIS militants behind the Paris massacre who were holed up in a flat.
She was sent in to the building to sniff out booby traps but was blown to pieces when a woman came out firing her AK-47 at police and then detonated her suicide vest.
Tributes quickly poured in to the much-loved canine who had been decorated with service medals after a distinguished career in the force.
One police handler said it was ‘a little like losing one of our colleagues’ while a Twitter user said Diesel had ‘died to defend our colours’.
Diesel’s death sparked a wave of mourning across social media, under the Twitter hashtag #JeSuisChien. The hashtag, which means I am a dog and was trending on Twitter, is a reference to the worldwide cry of solidarity ‘Je Suis Charlie’ in the wake of the terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine in January.
The force said that ‘assault and explosives’ search dogs are indispensable to the work of the French anti-terror unit known as RAID.
More than 100 armed officers stormed a flat in Saint-Denis this morning believing Paris massacres mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, was inside with six other terrorists – but the French authorities will not say if he was there or if he is dead or alive.
A female terrorist believed to be Abaaoud’s jihadi bride or cousin blew herself up with a suicide vest and another suspect died during the six-hour siege where five people were taken alive and arrested. Two more suspects were held ‘nearby’.
Sniffer dogs have played a vital role in criminal investigations for decades thanks their unrivalled sense of smell. While the average human has around five to 10million olfactory cells in their nose, a dog has as many as 200 million.
Police have long trained canines to detect illicit substances such as drugs, but in recent years they have also been used in anti-terror and military operations to sniff out the smallest traces of explosive materials.
May Diesel and all the innocent lives lost rest in peace.
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