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Sniffer dog killed by python snake
Limpopo police commissioner, Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe, has paid tribute to a top narcotics detector dog who was killed by a python in Lephalale on Saturday. According to police, the Belgian Shepherd named Bina, was killed in her kennel by a python on Saturday.”Bina was seven years [old] and trained at the Roodeplaat Dog School [in] Pretoria, in June 2019 as a narcotics detector dog. She established herself as one of the top dogs in SAPS Lephalale K9 and assisted in solving drug-related cases in Limpopo,” police spokesperson Colonel Malesela Ledwaba said in a statement. Just before her death, Bina had also helped in the arrest of three suspects in Lephalale, found with crystals, nyaope, and methcathinone, known as the Cat, worth around R75 000.Meanwhile, Hadebe said Bina’s death is a big loss to the K9 unit and the province as a whole.”These dogs have the ability to go into places that an ordinary human being would not be able to; they have the ability to detect incriminating items or items with evidential value just by using their senses,” he said.”They are certainly part of the SAPS family. Rest well, Bina.”Her body was taken to a vet at the Roodeplaat Dog School for a post-mortem.
