India holds emergency drills as tensions escalate with Pakistan

From NPR.

As tensions escalate between India and Pakistan, Indian authorities held dozens of emergency drills across the country to prepare its first responders for conflict. Volunteers rappelled from the top of a building as sirens went off and firecrackers erupted — apparently to imitate shelling in one drill in the Indian port city of Mumbai.

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