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TIL Zanjeer aka Ginger was a Sniffer dog who helped detect over 3329 kg of RDX explosives, 249 grenades and live ammunition during the 1993 Mumbai Blasts and thus helped save thousands of lives. Poor boy died of Bone cancer at the age of 8 and was buried with full state honours.

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