Toronto cops drill for disaster after Ottawa attacks

About 100 police, firefighters, and other emergency workers held a disaster-response drill in downtown Toronto’s deserted financial district following a week that saw two soldiers killed on Canadian soil.

Toronto cops drill for disaster after Ottawa attacks

Security in normally relaxed Canada has been tighter in the days since a gunman shot dead a soldier in Ottawa before charging into the parliament building and another man ran over two soldiers with a car, killing one, outside Montreal.

Toronto emergency responders donned oxygen tanks and yellow full-body hazardous material suits shortly after dawn, set up decontamination tents, and practised how they would respond in an office tower that had received a suspicious package.

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