The dog picked through boulders and rubble in the Taiwanese national park, looking for victims trapped or buried by the rockslides that had followed a 7.4-magnitude earthquake.
Roger was trained to look for survivors, but his handler, Lee Hsin Hung, suspected that this time he had found something else.
“As I got closer, I saw the leg of the deceased,” Mr. Lee said in an interview.
Roger’s discovery led rescuers to recover the body of a 21-year-old woman from the rubble on Saturday, taking the death toll of Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in 25 years to 13.
More than 1,000 more were injured in the disaster (but strict building codes and public preparedness may have helped prevent an even greater catastrophe).
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