Oviedo explosive device police dog Deny killed, Digi Mart USA News (Oviedo, Spain): Deny, a three-year-old German shepherd of Spain’s National Police, died during a police operation on Tuesday in Oviedo, according to the force. The dog was working alongside his handler, Juan José, when he was killed.
The National Police said in a post on its account on the social network X that a canine unit sub-inspector also died in the operation. A TEDAX bomb-disposal officer was seriously injured.
The force expressed its “deepest embrace” to members of its Special Canine Units.
The operation began early in the morning after a call reported a alleged neighborhood dispute in which shots had been fired. Officers who arrived at the scene found a 17-year-old woman wounded by gunfire.
She was taken to the Central University Hospital of Asturias (HUCA) and is out of danger.
According to National Police spokesman Pedro Aguado, the alleged shooter had left a backpack with a possible explosive device on the landing of the residence. Canine units and TEDAX specialists were deployed.
Officers moved the backpack to the street to protect neighbors, and an explosion occurred while it was being handled.
The blast killed the sub-inspector and seriously injured the TEDAX specialist. Police later said the injured officer was being treated at the HUCA.
