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Brazil beefs up Olympic security after Nice terror attack

Brazil is revising its security for next month’s Summer Olympic Games in the wake of the attack in Nice, France, that killed 84 people, officials said as they carried out the latest in a series of counterterrorism exercises.

This country, where there have been no major terrorist attacks in recent years, will host up to half a million tourists for South America’s first Olympic Games, which start in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 5.

Extra measures will be imposed including intensified searches, increased security on streets, restrictions on traffic on some routes and an increased safety cordon around some venues, ministers said without providing details.

The city had already planned to deploy 85,000 police, military and members of a Brazil-style national guard called the National Force on Rio’s streets. But the scale of the carnage caused by the truck used in the Nice attack prompted Brazil to reevaluate its security measures.