Brazil Boosting Olympics Security after Nice Attack

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Brazil's interim president will hold an emergency meeting with cabinet ministers Friday to bolster security for next month's Olympics, officials said after a suspected terrorist attack in the French city of Nice.

"We think we will have to intensify the security monitoring system. We will have to increase the number of checkpoints and controls," Defense Minister Raul Jungmann told TV station Globo.

Relatively, interim president Michel Temer's office said he would meet with his intelligence chief and defense and justice ministers in response to the Nice attack, which killed at least 84 people.

The attack, perpetrated with a 19-tonne truck, showed that "any tool, any instrument, any vehicle can be the vector of a terrorist act," said Jungmann.

In the same respect, head of the intelligence service, Sergio Etchegoyen, said fears over security at the Rio de Janeiro Games, which open on August 5, had "gone up a notch" after the attack in France.

He said new security measures would include extra checkpoints, barricades and traffic restrictions.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team