Bomb-sniffing spaniel suffers heart attack and dies after his companion person shot dead in Afghanistan

Army dog handler Liam Tasker, a Lance Corporal in the British army, was said to be inseparable from his spaniel, Theo.

On Tuesday, Tasker was shot dead while on patrol north of Nahr-e-Saraj in Helmand prov

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in southern Afghanistan.

Theo, who was trained to search for bombs, survived but, on returning to the British base at Camp Bastion, he suffered a heart attack and died.

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