Australian athletes’ possessions, including laptops, were stolen while they were evacuated from the Olympic village in Rio on Friday, according to Australian media.
Australian reports also quoted team chef de mission Kitty Chiller saying the fire alarms didn’t work.
“What we have subsequently found is that the fire alarms had been silenced while they were carrying out maintenance on the building next door to ours,” she reportedly said.
Australian team members were out of the village for about 30 minutes after a fire that was believed to have been caused by a discarded cigarette in the smoke-free facility.