Italy outraged at killing of heroic police dog ‘given food laced with nails’

Bruno, a seven-year-old bloodhound, was found dead on Friday (Claudia Aloisio/AP)

The killing of a police bloodhound who helped find nine people over the course of his sniffer-dog rescue career has outraged Italians and sparked a criminal investigation to find his killers.

Bruno, a seven-year-old, 88-kilogram (195-pound) bloodhound, was found dead on Friday morning in his shed in southern Taranto.