China kicks off anti-terrorism drills

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-06-09 22:37

HOHHOT - China held an anti-terrorism drill Tuesday afternoon to test its police forces' ability to handle a bomb containing radioactive contaminants.

Police officers check a "bomb" containing radioactive contaminants during the "Great Wall-6" anti-terrorism drill, Hohhot, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, June 9, 2009. [Xinhua]

The drill, held in northern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's capital Hohhot, kicks off a series of drills in the autonomous region, Shanxi and Hebei provinces that surround Beijing.

The exercise, codenamed "Great Wall-6", is aimed at improving the police forces' abilities to deal with possible terrorism attacks and other emergencies for the security of celebrations to be held in Beijing around October 1 which marks the 60th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China.

In the first drill, special policemen and armed policemen confronted "terrorists" in the city's square and the "terrorists" triggered the bombs which spread radioactive contaminants.

Through close cooperation with the city's health and environment authorities, the police forces successfully controlled the situation, according to the exercise's command headquarters.

The exercise will last through the middle of this month.

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