Ahead of the two-year anniversary of the incident in which a passenger was slashed and injured in a moving Odakyu Line train, a drill was conducted to confirm evacuation procedures for passengers on the assumption that a suspicious person had violently attacked the train with a knife.
About 100 people from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and Odakyu Electric Railway participated in the drill, and the train was actually driven on the assumption that a man with a knife had gone berserk on the train heading to Shinjuku Station.
First, a man pointed a knife at the passengers, and the other passengers who saw the situation fled to another vehicle at once.
The passengers pressed the button of the "emergency call device" installed in the train to notify the conductor of the occurrence of an emergency, and then a police officer waiting at the station seized the man.
Station staff were checking the procedure for guiding passengers from the train to the platform and evacuating them safely.
Kazuo Mukaide, Regional Division Chief of the Shinjuku Police Station, said, "It will soon be two years since the incident occurred, but we would like to continue to be able to deal with unforeseen situations.