None of the passengers were seriously injured.
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Shattered glass lies on the seats of a media bus in the Deodoro area of Rio de Janeiro.
“We were shot at”.
A journalist from Estado de Sao Paulo said that military cops did not bother inspecting the bus before declaring it had been stones thrown, which he thought improbable as they were a long way from houses and they all seemed to come from exactly the same position.
“There was a popping, cracking noise”, said a photographer from the UK’s Press Association. I was sitting at the back. “I mean, we could hear the report of the gun”, said Sherryl “Lee” Michaelson, a retired United States air force captain who is working for a basketball publication in Rio.
“The security authorities are now investigating the incident and we await their report before making further comment”.
“With my background and training, I got down on the floor as much as I could and I hollered to the others to get down”.
A media bus was reportedly attacked and journalists shot at while it travelled between Olympic venues yesterday.
Michaelson says both the bus driver and Olympic officials made mistakes.
“Two impacts on the right side of the bus shattered two windows”.
A Belarus journalist suffered a cut hand in the incident, near Rio de Janeiro’s notorious City of God favela, Gaston Sainz of the Argentinian daily La Nacion, who was on the bus, told AFP. After a couple of minutes we had a police escort.
Although police said it was stones hitting the window, passengers on the bus suspected it was small-caliber bullet.
“The driver will provide a statement to police this evening accompanied by a security manager of the Organising Committee of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games”.
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On Saturday, a bullet hit the equestrian centre, missing journalists there by just a few feet.
