RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Striking construction workers and security personnel clashed Monday at Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Park, the main cluster of venues under construction for the 2016 Summer Games.
Rio Mais, the consortium building the Olympic venues, confirmed that random gunshots were fired as workers and security confronted each other. There were no reports of injuries at the venue cluster, which is located 25 kilometers (15 miles) west of central Rio.
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