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Xinjiang airport holds anti-terror drill

Xinhua, July 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

An anti-terror drill was held in the airport of Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, to ensure emergencies can be handled within three minutes.

In the simulated scene, police controlled four mobs who attacked passengers with axes in ten minutes, and those "injured" in the scenario were treated.

Some 200 people and 16 vehicles participated in the comprehensive drill aimed at testing the coordination and cooperation of various emergency response departments at the Urumqi Diwopu International Airport.

"If a terror attack occurs, airport forces will deal with mobs within three minutes after receiving information and quickly take emergency rescue measures to guarantee the safety of people's lives with the fullest efforts," said Hua Guangrong, deputy general manger of the Urumqi Subsidiary of Xinjiang Airport Group.

The Urumqi airport is a key aviation hub in west China with a throughput of 16 million passengers last year. It has flights to central and western Asia and Europe.

As of May this year, 181 terror groups had been dismantled by police in Xinjiang after a sweeping campaign was launched following the May 22 bombing of a market in Urumqi that killed 39 people in 2014. Endi