Official coach of the Olympic Games Rio 2016 is hit by gunfire

An official coach of the Olympic Games Rio 2016 that was the path between the Arena Youth in Deodoro, and the Olympic Park Bar was shooting target low caliber as he passed by Curicica neighborhood in western Rio, around from 19:45 Tuesday. Two windows were struck and the shrapnel hit and injured two journalists.

The incident occurred while 12 media professionals, four Brazilian and eight foreign, made their way back to the MPC, media center, after the close of the round of the women's basketball games. The shock made that the journalists would play on the floor and the initial feeling was that the bus had been hit by stray bullets. Estadão reporter stood next to one of the affected windows.

A journalist from Turkey had the elbow cut by shrapnel. An American professional official broadcaster, probably the older the group, cried a lot and, like the Turkish, just up from the floor when the coach asked for help from a military police vehicle and stopped on the track.

The police did not bother to inspect the bus and claimed that the vehicle was stoned target. The thesis is unlikely, since he passed away from homes, at high speed, and the marks on glasses were very small diameter. Furthermore, the bursts were followed, at the same time, first in the front window, then a more central. A high caliber bullet would have gone through the bus.

The police soon turned away from the bus and allowed him to follow the route to the MPC. On the way, the windows were falling apart, threatening journalists, since the shards littered the vehicle.

The vehicle was at least 10 minutes standing next to the BRT Outeiro station, but no one offered assistance. An army car with at least seven men saw it from a distance of no more than 50 meters, but none of the military offered to help or to provide security for journalists, some of them still in panic, crying.

The bus following to make the path, which came out about 30 minutes after the Arena of the Future, was escorted by four army cars to their arrival in the MPC. The Public Security Secretariat said it will not comment. The Civil Police press offices and the military police were not found by the report last night.