Rio Olympics bomb explosion

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Security in the Olympic city of Rio de Janeiro is tight. Better safe than sorry is the slogan here.

Security in the Olympic city of Rio de Janeiro is tight. Better safe than sorry is the slogan here.

Rio police say a blast head near the Rio Olympics cycling course was a controlled explosion of a suspicious package and not a bomb as reported by some media.

The blast was heard near the finish line of the Rio Olympics cycling course.

There are no signs of injuries, witnesses told the Reuters news agency.


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Juergen T Steinmetz

Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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