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VIENNA -- Sporting organizers should realize large sport events nowadays are the primary targets for terrorists, since the possibilities of bridging the security could be higher, a security expert said on Thursday in a sport security summit held in Vienna.
"Terrorist see sport as a soft target, not every sports events can be as well protected as a major conference of world leaders," Khoo Boon Hui, Senior Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Home Affairs of Singapore, former President of INTERPOL, told Xinhua.
He suggested that remedial measures including medical perpetration is needed to protect people afterwards, which could play the crucial role in the emergent situation to bring down the casualties.
Regarding tough security issue in sport events, Mohammed Hanzab Mohammed Hanzab, President of the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS), said the ticketing system, with advanced technology, which includes informations of the fans could to some extense support the security management of the events.
Experts and officials are discussing the sports security issues in the two-day Security Expert Summit in the capital city of Austria. |