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Toronto undergoes simulated attack

// September 19th, 2005 // Neighbourhoods

Last Updated Sun, 18 Sep 2005 13:22:21 EDT
CBC News

Emergency crews pulled bodies from a Toronto subway station and office tower Sunday morning after a highly coordinated attack.

But it was only a test.

Passersby gawked behind police tape as dozens of officers in protective suits and gas masks carried victims to a decontamination site.

The scenario involved terrorists detonating two bombs in downtown Toronto’s financial district.

The first was a radioactive device contaminating a subway car.

The second simulated explosion minutes later was a hydrogen cyanide blast in a stairwell of the Royal Trust tower.

The test included about 250 people and cost close to $30,000. It was designed to test the city’s Joint CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear) Response Team.