The opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio is set to begin early tomorrow morning and already a group of Chinese basketball reporters have seen first-hand the city’s notorious side.
According to a Weibo post from the Chinese-language edition of Basketball Magazine, a busload of reporters bore witness to a public gunfight that claimed the lives of six locals.
The incident occurred on a roadway approximately 2 kilometers from the airport while the reporters were en route to Rio’s Olympic Village.
Earlier posts on Basketball Magazine’s Weibo page indicated that it was the bus carrying China’s national basketball team that got caught in the gunfight, but this was later clarified to indicate it was a bus full of sports journalists that witnessed the mayhem.
No Chinese casualties have been reported.
It appears Chinese netizens were not overreacting when they claimed the biggest challenge at Rio’s 2016 Summer Olympics would be for athletes to “come back alive.”
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