Projectile thrown at Australian cricket team bus in Bangladesh
No players or officials were hurt in the incident, which Cricket Australia suspect was a small rock or stone thrown by a child. Only minor damage was caused to the bus, but security has been beefed up around the team on Tuesday as a result of the incident.
CA's head of security Sean Carroll – who is with the team in Chittagong – explained what happened.
"On route back to the hotel last night a window on the Australian team bus was broken. No one was injured in the incident," Carroll said on Tuesday.
"Team security personnel are currently in discussion with local authorities while they investigate the cause, which is believed to have come from a small rock or stone.
"Bangladesh authorities are taking the incident seriously and security has been increased on the route.
"To date we have been happy with with security measures that have been in place and we are comfortable with the response from the Bangladesh authorities and the increased security presence we have been provided in light of the incident."
The entire Australian contingent – including travelling media – have been getting a convoy to and from the ground both in Dhaka, where the first Test was held, and Chittagong, where the tourists are trying to level the two-Test series.
Australia cancelled a tour to Bangladesh in 2015 because of security concerns, but studied the approach taken by England during a tour last year in preparing their security operation for this tour.
Cherny, Daniel. "Projectile thrown at Australian cricket team bus in Bangladesh. Stuff. 05/09/2017. 05/09/2017. "<https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/96522923/projectile-thrown-at-australian-cricket-team-bus-in-bangladesh>"
My Response:
I feel like this incident was over exaggerated, or there is something else to the story that is not being mention. Because who gives a cricket team an entire escort and ups their security presence just because a small young child who probably didn't know what he or she was doing, threw a rock at the team's bus. Little children throw rocks and things at people and cars all the time, and to me this doesn't seem worthy of the extent of the precaution taken. Which is why it is also possible that there is another motive for the increase in security, because perhaps the little child throwing the rock was a cover up story and something else much more serious occurred, and that is the reason for taking the security action that they did, but that is just my opinion.
My Bias:
I feel like I am bias against the media wanting to blow everything out of proportion and make everything sound so much worse than it really is just so that you keep looking for such news.

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