Navy canines trump in bomb sniffing drill

Mumbai: The Navy on Thursday gave a pat on the back of one of its sniffer dogs for an “outstanding” feat in sniffing out explosives and improvised explosive devices that had been stashed away during a drill carried out on the offshore oil platform last month. This was for the first time that the Navy’s

Western Command

had roped in sniffer dogs to sniff out explosives.

Its trained sniffer dog Mukti and her handler SK Bishoyi were commended by the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief. The other sniffer dog is named Minki.The sniffer dogs were part of the exercise to check threat to oil

platforms at Bombay High

. TNN