'Bombs' detonated at Phuket Airport drill

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'Bombs' detonated at Phuket Airport drill
Phuket Gazette

PHUKET: -- A simulated terrorist bomb drill held at Phuket International Airport yesterday went off without a hitch, organizers said.

In the exercise, members of the Phuket Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit and Airports of Thailand (AoT) staff short-circuited one bomb with a high-pressure water device, responded to a “fire” when a second was detonated, and cared for “injured” participants.

When the first “bomb” was found in the parking lot in front of Terminal 2, the public was evacuated from the area and an officer in full bomb-detonation gear sprayed it with high pressure water to short-circuit its electrical system, explained Phuket Governor Maitri Inthusut, on hand to oversee the event.

The action continued when a second object “exploded”, causing a simulated fire. Firemen battled the colorful smoke from the “blaze” while rescue workers were called in to tend to the “injured” and transport them to hospital.

The exercise, code-named “Pemex” (Phuket International Airport Full Scale Emergency Plan Exercise 2013) is a yearly requirement of the International Civil Aviation Organization.

Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket_news/2013/-Bombs-detonated-at-Phuket-Airport-drill-21826.html


-- Phuket Gazette 2013-08-01

[LivinginKata]

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[Cuban]

Amazing Thailand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRWVAXf0rhs&noredirect=1

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withouth a hitch didn't i just get a post for a bomb explosion there would be nice if media is informed before they start the drill ,,the warn before they do any thing else such as check for illagal working alliens, raid at well known places where they sell drugs and so on

[jpduggan]

They didn't swing by Phuket Provincial hall on the way to the airport, they may have dropped one of their ''bombs'' there?

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They didn't swing by Phuket Provincial hall on the way to the airport, they may have dropped one of their ''bombs'' there?

na that sounded like a farang fart