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Rio is conveying around 85,000 fighters and police to secure the diversions, twice the same number of as London did four years back. 

Military police in Rio de Janeiro are venturing up security after shots struck a transport conveying writers to the primary Olympic Park, the sorting out board for the amusements said. 

While powers said it was not instantly clear what struck the transport, a resigned U.S. Flying corps commander who now expounds on ladies' b-ball said she was sure it was gunfire. 

England's Press Association on Wednesday cited Lee Michaelson, who was on the transport on Tuesday, as saying that she intuitively hit the floor when she heard the sound of gunfire and "hollered to the others ... 'Get down! Get down! We are taking flame.'" 

"I recognize what a weapon sounds like," she said. "It was the sound before I ever saw the glass (break) or anything." 

The Rio arranging board of trustees said the driver heard a clamor from inside the transport, which he believed was photography gear tumbling down. 

When he checked his back perspective mirror, he found the columnists were lying on the ground. He saw a squad car and ceased. 

"Right now, he understood that two windows on the same side of the transport were broken," the board of trustees said in an announcement. "He continued the course under the escort of the squad car and the broken windows started to give way further." 

Michaelson says both the transport driver and Olympic authorities committed errors. The driver backed off and pulled over, which she says is "absolutely the opposite he ought to have done, which was to put the gas on and floor it." 

When they came back to the Olympic park, she says there was no therapeutic help holding up, notwithstanding a few travelers being harmed and dying. 

Twelve columnists on the transport endured minor wounds. 

"There was somewhat of a popping commotion and something hit two windows in favor of the transport and left two opening imprints, which looked like projectile gaps," David Davies, a picture taker for the British-based news office Press Association, told the AP. 

The transport was going from the northern venue group of Deodoro to the principle Olympic Park in the suburb of Barra da Tijuca. 

The occurrence raises more worries about security at the amusements. 

Rio is sending around 85,000 warriors and police to secure the diversions, twice the same number of as London did four years back. 

On Saturday, a stray projectile flew through the top of a media tent at the Olympic Equestrian Center. Authorities said it had been let go from a slope favela, yet said the amusements had not been focused on. Coordinators said the proposed target was likely a security camera on a zeppelin.