RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -
Brazil's smooth-talking Central Bank chief Arminio Fraga
found himself dodging more than reporters' questions at a chic
Rio golf club, when security guards got involved in a shootout
with trespassers.
The banker was playing golf with his son Silvio and a nephew at
the seventh hole, some 650 feet away from the flying bullets,
but he did not get hurt, a bank spokeswoman confirmed Monday.
"He was there but it really wasn't that dramatic,'' the Central
Bank spokeswoman told Reuters.
Club officials said they were unable to confirm details of the
incident.
According to a columnist in newspaper O Globo, the trespassers
opened fire on the security guards who then called in
reinforcements and chased them into the nearby woods, where the
attackers disappeared.
Shootouts where bystanders get injured by stray bullets are
common in violence-ridden Rio, but they rarely take place
outside the city's teeming shantytowns.
