The Australian team stayed in the street where the attack occurred, prior to their move to the Olympic Village.
Reports are emerging that Russia's vice-consul has shot and killed an assailant in the Rio de Janeiro suburb of Barra da Tijuca -- the same suburb which is home to Rio's main Olympic Park complex.
The attack reportedly occurred on the Avenue das Americas on Thursday morning Rio time, a large thoroughfare directly across a shallow lagoon from Olympic Park, and extremely close to where the Australian Olympic Committee plans to stage several open-air athlete press events on Friday, Rio time.
Rio newspaper O Globo (The Globe) reports that the vice-consul was reacting to a robbery. The 60-year-old man, whose identity was not disclosed, was driving with his wife and daughter when his car was caught in a traffic jam. Two suspects approached him on motorbikes and one broke the window of his car with a gun.
The vice-consul, who is an expert in the martial art jiujitsu, took the gun from the burglar and shot him dead. The other man ran away. The Avenue das Americas is the main thoroughfare from Barra da Tijuca to downtown Rio. Olympic Park is on the northern shore of the lagoon.
Russia has two consuls (and vice-consuls) in Brazil -- in Sao Paulo and in Rio.
The 60-year-old has been named in some media reports as Marcos Cesar Feres Braga,
But Russian news agency Tass has denied that staff from the Russian consulate were involved in any incident.
"Information circulating in the Brazilian press... about the alleged shooting of a Brazilian national by a Russian diplomat during an armed robbery does not reflect reality," said Vladimir Tokmakov, Russian consul general in Rio.
"No member of staff had "anything to do with the incident,"
The   for  — by reports disputed by the Russian Consul — shot and killed an attacker on Thursday , after two individuals attempted to commit a robbery.

As reported,  lawyer Marcos Cesar Feres Braga — so-named by the  newspaper — working for the  , was driving with his family through the suburb of  near the main  complex when the incident occurred. According to reports from the Rio newspaper , the 60-year-old man, his wife, and his daughter were stopped in traffic due to the  procession in a nearby neighbourhood.
Two individuals on motorbikes approached and used a gun to smash the car window. Braga, trained and considered an expert — according to reports — in , took control of the attacker's firearm and proceeded to shoot dead the alleged attacker, while the second suspect fled the scene.

Rio de Janeiro's homicide branch has released a statement in relation to the incident. "The vice consul got into a physical struggle with the assailant and during the fight the aggressor's weapon fired shots. The assailant died of his wounds on the spot."

However, Russia's Consul General Vladimir Tokmakov has released a statement claiming no Russian diplomats or employees of the consulate general were involved in the incident. 
"Information circulating in the Brazilian press about the alleged shooting ... of a Brazilian national by a Russian diplomat during an armed robbery does not reflect reality".


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