Story out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
Running late after arriving for the Olympics last week, the mother of the United States volleyball player Carli Lloyd dropped her suitcase at the cruise ship where she is staying during the Games. She and her family then rushed to see her daughter’s first match.
When the group returned a few hours later, the mother, Cindy Lloyd, was pulled into an interrogation room and shown the charred and unrecognizable remains of her suitcase. It had been blown up because, the authorities told her, they suspected it was a bomb.
“The handle was nowhere,” said Ms. Lloyd, who is traveling with her brother and two grown children. “It was completely blown up. There was some clothing. They use some sort of wet bomb, I think, because everything was wet. Some of the clothes were salvageable, but some were melted. Some had holes. My American flag was melted. And all the toiletries with caps had their caps blown off.”
The authorities in Brazil have blown up several suspicious bags since the Olympics began, including an unattended one near the finish line of a cycling race. Cont.
Story from - New York Times
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