Games projects halted over worker safety concerns

With less than three months to go until the start of the Games, work on parts of Rio de Janeiro's Olympic Park and Olympic Village was halted on Monday amid fears for the safety of workers, Brazil's Ministry of Labor and Employment said.

Officials who reviewed work on a television tower in the Olympic Park and digging work at the Olympic Village shut down operations at those and two other sites. They did not say exactly what the problems entailed or how serious they were.

"We have no intention of hampering the event," Robson Leite, the ministry's regional superintendent, said.