19 Dec, 2022 @ 13:30
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DOG’S BEST FRIENDS: Pooch rescued from cave in Spain after BOMB SQUAD called in

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Kira was brought to safety with officers jubilant

A HUNTING dog that had been trapped in a cave for five days has been rescued unharmed after a massive Guardia Civil operation.

Bomb squad officers were called in to help blast a way to the frightened pooch with a series of 20 ‘micro explosions’.

Once the narrow cave opening was widened enough, a  mountain rescue officer crawled in and brought Kira the podenco to safety after an day-long operation.

It involved the Explosives Service of Madrid, experts in micro-blasting, the Explosives Group of Zaragoza, the Mountain Service of Jaca, Boltaña and Mora de Rubielos (Teruel), with the support of Citizen Security personnel from Alcañiz (Teruel).

Kira had last been seen chasing a boar in Samper de Calanda (Teruel) when she disappeared.

When she failed to return home, her owner spent four days scouring the countryside before eventually tracking her down to a narrow cave entrance using a GPS tracking device attached to Kira’s collar.

There he heard Kira’s barking but he had no way to enter the fissure,and Kira was unable to get out, so he called in Mountain Rescue.

They called in explosive experts, and after a day-long operation they managed to rescue Kira unharmed.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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