Police Officer and Canine Agent Die and Another Policeman Seriously Wounded Following Shooting and Explosion in Oviedo, Spain
A sub-inspector died and another officer lost a leg after a backpack bomb detonated during a shooting investigation, police said.
- A police officer and Deny, a 3-year-old member of the Police Dog Unit, died in Oviedo, Spain, when a backpack containing an explosive device detonated while bomb experts examined it at a residential building on Rafael Urrusti Street.
- Officers arrived at the Villafr neighborhood building following reports of a shooting where a 17-year-old was wounded during a family dispute. Emergency services responded after residents reported three gunshots just before 7:30 a.m.
- The deceased officer belonged to the Police Dog Unit, while the surviving officer, a member of the TEDAX bomb unit, suffered a leg amputation. JUPOL confirmed the death, stating, "One police officer dead and another seriously injured."
- Emergency teams safeguarded the site by establishing a 'double security cordon' while the National Police and Local Police managed the perimeter at the Villafr building entrance. The operation involved firefighters and emergency medical personnel.
- Authorities are investigating the connection between the shooting and the detonation as the suspected gunman remains at large. National Police have not yet clarified the precise circumstances regarding the explosive device.
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A policeman was killed and another seriously wounded on Tuesday morning in Oviedo, Spain, during the explosion of an booby-trapped bag. The incident occurred as law enforcement intervened for a linked shooting...
The National Police keeps closed all accesses to the Asturian capital to try to locate the man who has shot a 17-year-old girl and placed a backpack with an explosive device that has caused the death of the subinspector of the Canine Unit Juan José Rodríguez and injured another agent of the Tedax.
A National Police officer has died and another has been seriously injured in the explosion of a backpack containing a device that was searched early Tuesday in an apartment in Oviedo. A shooting also occurred in the same building moments before the explosion due to a neighborhood conflict that injured a 17-year-old girl. Police are investigating these two incidents as being related and are looking for a man who is believed to be both the perpetr…
<p>In Spain, while inspecting a suspicious backpack, an explosion occurred, a policeman was killed In Oviedo, a suspicious backpack exploded as he was being taken out of the house. A police officer and a service dog were killed, another The law enforcement officer is wounded.</p>
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elcorreogallego.esOne officer of the National Police has died and another has been seriously injured following the explosion of an artifact in Villafría, Oviedo, in an incident related to the origin, according to the first information, of a neighborhood dispute. "Operation is still open" and there is a large deployment to locate and arrest the author.
Juan José Rodríguez, of the Special Unit of Canine Guides, participated in the inspection of a suspicious backpack on the landing of a house.
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