Foreign reporters on the bus, which was travelling from Deodoro to the Olympic Park, are reporting two gunshots.
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Police are investigating the incident, including the possibility that the windows were shattered by something other than bullets.
While authorities said it was not immediately clear what struck the bus, a retired U.S. Air Force captain who now writes about women’s basketball said she was certain it was gunfire. It’s windows shattered and a couple of journalists were left with minor lacerations.
Pictures emerged showing a bus with two smashed windows, although it was initially unclear who or what was responsible for the damage.
The Rio statement says when the driver checked his mirror, he found journalists lying on the floor.
She thinks, because of the noise and the angle of the holes in the window, the shots were fired from a handgun, not a rifle. He saw a police auto and stopped.
Journalists covering the Olympics in Rio had a close call last night when their bus came under fire. “He resumed the route under the escort of the police auto and the broken windows began to give way further”.
“A few minutes later the bus pulled over on the motorway and the driver spoke to the police”.
Three members of the patrol were wounded, including one who is in a critical condition in hospital, the sources said.
Rio Olympics organizers stepped up police patrols on Wednesday as security concerns mounted over the threat posed by street violence, with a Games bus being hit by stones and a security patrol coming under fire near Rio’s global airport.
The Rio Games were drenched in rain and continued questions about why the diving well and water polo pools look so much like neglected aquariums. On Saturday, the first full day of competition, a bullet pierced the media tent at the equestrian venue.
Another suspect package was blown up on Tuesday near the luxury beachfront Copacabana Palace hotel.
Police said the man had robbed several people in the area, but did not give further details.
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Earlier in July, Belgian Olympic judo medallist Dirk Van Tichelt suffered a black eye in a late-night assault on Copacabana beach in Rio, the Belgian Olympic Committee confirmed.
