A Chinese businessman escaped a gun robbery in Brazil only to find a bullet lodged in his laptop hours later at the airport.

The man, surnamed Liu, was on a business trip to São Paulo, Brazil.

He was finishing work on October 1, and ordered a taxi to his five-star hotel to catch the flight back to China.

Liu said he wanted to get some fresh air, so he did not wait inside the hotel but walked to a petrol station about 100 metres from his hotel.

As he was chatting to a client on the phone near the exit of the station, a black car suddenly stopped in front of him.