Police dog "killed by terrorists" in Paris raid
PARIS-- Police say a police dog was killed in the siege of an apartment where some of the Paris attackers were thought to be holed up.
The National Police said in a tweet that the 7-year-old Belgian Malinois named Diesel, a SWAT team assault dog, was "killed by terrorists" during the raid in Saint-Denis, north of Paris.
Les chiens d'assaut et de recherche d'explosifs: indispensables dans les missions des opérateurs du #RAID pic.twitter.com/vb5lGjnwjO
— Police Nationale (@PNationale) November 18, 2015
Two suspects died in the assault, one of them a female suicide bomber and seven people were arrested in the apartment building. Five police officers were lightly injured.
The raid targeted perpetrators of Friday's deadly gun-and-bomb attacks in Paris that killed 129 people.
The intended target of the raid was Abdelhamid Abaaoud.