She said: “I know what a gun sounds like. There was a very distinctive sound of the report of a gun. It was the sound before I ever saw the glass or anything.
"With my background and training, I got down on the floor as much as I could and I hollered to the others to get down.
The Olympic Committee has not confirmed the bus was damaged by gunfire
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"The others were just beginning to respond. I started yelling at them, 'Get down, get down, we are taking fire'."
A statement from the Rio Olympic Games organising committee did not confirm if the bus had been shot and said an investigation into the incident was under way.