Rio Olympics 2016: Media shuttle bus attacked in Rio

Two people have been injured when a media bus at the Rio Olympics has been attacked, Brazil’s Estadao portal reports.

“We haven’t yet been able to confirm what kind of projectile hit the bus”, he said, adding that the incident occurred in the Curicaca neighbourhood, just a few kilometres (miles) north of the Olympic Park. “There is confusion as to whether it was bullets or stones”, Gaston Sainz of the Argentinian daily La Nacion, who was on the bus, told AFP.

“But there has been reports that one of the buses is damaged and we’re looking into those reports”. Flying pieces of glass left two people with minor lacerations.

The journey between the Olympic Hockey Centre in the Deodoro zone and the media transport mall in the Olympic Park, where the Main Press Centre is situated, takes approximately 20 minutes.

Lee Michaelson, 64, of Port Hueneme, Calif., said she heard gunshots. “It was very quick – pop, pop”.

“The driver said, ‘Don’t worry”.

The IOC said in a statement: “We are aware that a media bus travelling from Deodoro to Barra on the Transcarioca had two windows broken by objects coming from the surrounding area”.

‘The bus didn’t come to a stop but paused.

“Two impacts on the right side of the bus shattered two windows”.

Another Brazilian newspaper, the Estadão, also had an employee on the bus.

Another news outlet, Estadao, says it was gunfire from a low-calibre firearm, and two journalists were hit by glass shrapnel.