UK police confirm Uganda boxers unaccounted for after Commonwealth Games

Athletes from Uganda and Pakistan were reported ‘missing’ aft failing to instrumentality location from 2026 Commonwealth Games.

Police successful the United Kingdom person confirmed that members of the Ugandan boxing squad were unaccounted for aft they participated successful the Commonwealth Games successful Glasgow.

Police Scotland said successful a connection that it had “received reports of respective athletes who are unaccounted for” and that it was conducting “enquiries” and engaging with the Home Office.

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About 3,000 athletes from 74 nations competed successful the 2026 Commonwealth Games successful Scotland’s largest city, with the closing ceremonial held connected Sunday.

Only 2 members of the Ugandan boxing squad of six person returned to Uganda, the president of the Uganda Boxing Federation, Moses Muhangi, told the AFP quality bureau successful Kampala aft the archetypal athletes arrived connected Tuesday evening.

Moses said those who had not returned were the squad captain, Nuhu Batte, arsenic good arsenic 1 different antheral and 2 pistillate squad members.

The boxing squad members who returned location included a grandson of erstwhile Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, Aziz Abdul, who was disqualified for a headbutt successful his quarterfinal.

Moses said it was “too aboriginal to accidental that the 4 boxers disappeared”, noting the athletes’ UK visas were inactive valid and squad members were escaped to sojourn friends and family.

He said respective squad members were meant to instrumentality “later this week” and others astatine the weekend.

“It is excessively aboriginal to telephone it disappearance. Let america hold until their visas expire,” Moses said.

The main enforcement of the Games, Phil Batty, connected Monday told the UK’s PA Media quality bureau “we enactment truly intimately with Police Scotland, the Border Force and UK visas and migration to marque definite everyone arrives and departs successful enactment with regulation.”

A Pakistani boxer was also reported to person failed to instrumentality location connected schedule, according to determination media.