BRASILIA (Reuters) – Police in Brazil’s capital, Brasilia, are investigating a suspected bomb threat in the city’s hotel section, close to where President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is staying before his Jan. 1 inauguration, the federal district’s security department said on Tuesday.
A Reuters witness said sirens and helicopters could be heard from the hotel where Lula is staying. Brasilia has been tense for weeks after the country’s most fraught election in a generation.
(Reporting by Ricardo Brito and Lisandra Paraguassu; Editing by Leslie Adler)
