PARIS // A French police dog named Diesel was killed Wednesday during a shoot-out with jihadists holed up in a Paris apartment, while five officers were lightly wounded, police said.
“Diesel, a seven-year-old Belgian Shepherd, female assault dog … was killed by terrorists during the operation,” according to the Twitter account of France’s police.
“Assault and explosives detection dogs are vital in the operations of RAID”, the specialist anti-terrorist unit in the French police that launched the dawn assault.
Two suspected jihadists were killed during the raid, which saw automatic gunfire and explosions ring through the working-class suburb from 4am.
One of them was a woman who detonated an explosives vest.
Seven other people were arrested.
The operation comes as part of a countrywide manhunt to find any links to the devastating string of attacks in Paris on Friday night that left 129 dead and hundreds injured.
* Agence France-Presse
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