Heroic Landmine-Detecting Rat Named After Manchester City's Vincent Kompany

Now we've seen it all.

A landmine-detecting rat has been named after Manchester City defender Vincent Kompany. 

A picture of the "hero rat" was tweeted by APOPO and picked up by Manchester City's own Twitter account:

APOPO showed its appreciation:

The charity has also named a rat after Romelu Lukaku.

Keep up the good fight, hero rats! 

[Twitter: @HeroRATs]