Security shrouds Hawaii for APEC summit

Hawaii’s tourist playground of Waikiki Beach is bracing for an unlikely invasion as security kicks in for a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders hosted by President Barack Obama.

Secret Service, police and army personnel are swarming over the white sand beaches of Obama’s birthplace of Honolulu as authorities lock down a roughly one-kilometre stretch of Waikiki and its off-shore waters.

Security is also ultra-tight behind the beaches, with some of the city’s busiest streets empty due to road closures on routes leading into Waikiki’s resort hotels as federal agents and police bark at any vehicles or pedestrians that goes astray.

Local grumbling over traffic snarls caused by road closures has been exacerbated by the killing of a Hawaii man who was shot by a US State Department security agent in a late-night altercation last weekend.

Reports indicated both men were inebriated.

The agent has been charged with murder.

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