SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian police said Monday there were no injuries after shots were fired near an Under-20 World Cup women’s water polo game between China and Canada in the city of Salvador.

China won 12-8 on Sunday — the opening day of the tournament — but footage showed the game being briefly interrupted as players got out of the pool, laid down and took cover by a small barrier after hearing gunshots outside the water polo venue in the Pituba neighborhood. China led Canada 3-2 at the time.

“The match stopped for about a minute. Our team saw that the police was taking care of it,” Marco Antônio Lemos, head of the Bahia state water sports federation, said in a statement.

Police said the cause of the shots was a confrontation with an alleged local thief who was outside the venue and t

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