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Article: Singapore holds first-ever terror attack drill
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- January 15, 2006
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Singapore holds first-ever terror attack drill
SINGAPORE, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Singapore on Sunday held an anti-
terror exercise in one of the country's hawker centers to test the
Singaporeans' response to terror attacks.
According to Channel NewsAsia reports, the drill, organized by the
Serangoon Constituency Civil Defense Executive Committee, took place
at the Chomp Chomp Hawker Center in Serangoon Garden in the southeast
part of the country.
Codenamed "Exercise NorthStar V", the city state's first surprise
large-scale civil emergency drill drew the participation of more than
2,000 people from 22 government agencies and even disrupted the
public train services during the process.
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