Tokyo police hold funeral for police dog

Tokyo police hold funeral for police dog

A police officer prays in front of a portrait of Lester, a police dog, during a funeral in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2015, for the dog that died at the age of 13 on Dec. 4. Lester was known for sniffing to confirm the survival of a 2-year-old boy at the site of a landslide following an earthquake in Niigata Prefecture in 2004, leading to his rescue 92 hours after being buried. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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