A drill simulating indiscriminate attacks is today to be held at Daqiaotou MRT Station in Taipei and Sanchong Elementary School MRT Station in New Taipei City, with emergency alerts to be sent to mobile phones near one of the sites, the Taipei City Government said yesterday.
The exercise would take place from 1:30pm to 2:30pm, during which mobile phones within a 500m radius of Daqiaotou Station would receive emergency warning messages as part of the simulation, the city government said in a statement.
Conducted jointly by the Taipei and New Taipei City governments, the drill aims to familiarize people with emergency response procedures and ensure rapid, orderly evacuations in the event of a major incident, it said.
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People are advised not to panic upon receiving the alert, which would be clearly marked as a "drill" in Chinese and English, the city government said.
The message would read: "[Drill] [Evacuation] A major incident has occurred at MRT Daqiaotou Station. For your personal safety, please remain calm, find cover nearby and avoid the area. Taipei City Government 1999."
It would be the third such drill, following exercises at the Taipei City Hall MRT Station in late December last year and Taipei Main Station last month after an indiscriminate knife attack at Taipei Main Station and near Zhongshan MRT Station on Dec. 19, in which four people died, including the perpetrator, while 11 people were injured.
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