{"id":2176,"date":"2026-08-06T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asianewscast.com\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:00:11","slug":"uk-police-confirm-uganda-boxers-unaccounted-for-after-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asianewscast.com\/?p=2176","title":{"rendered":"UK police confirm Uganda boxers unaccounted for after Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rich-share\" data-testid=\"rich-share\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__divider\">\n<div class=\"listen-to-article\"><button class=\"listen-to-article__button\" data-testid=\"listen-to-article-button\"><title>Listen<\/title>Listen (2 mins)<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share__update-reading-list-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"update-reading-list\">\n<p class=\"update-reading-list__button-text\">Save<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share__wrapper\">\n<div 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<\/span>AFP<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<div class=\"date-simple\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 6 Aug 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">6 Aug 2026<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p>Police in the United Kingdom have confirmed that members of the Ugandan boxing team were unaccounted for after they participated in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>Police Scotland said in a statement that it had \u201creceived reports of several athletes who are unaccounted for\u201d and that it was conducting \u201cenquiries\u201d and engaging with the Home Office.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 4 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"more-on__list\">\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list 1 of 4<\/span><a class=\"more-on__link\" 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href=\"\/sports\/2026\/8\/4\/uefa-confirm-legal-letter-served-to-fifa-after-infantino-world-cup-plan\">UEFA confirms legal letter served to FIFA after Infantino\u2019s World Cup plan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>About 3,000 athletes from 74 nations competed in the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Scotland\u2019s largest city, with the closing ceremony held on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Only two members of the Ugandan boxing team of six have returned to Uganda, the president of the Uganda Boxing Federation, Moses Muhangi, told the AFP news agency in Kampala after the first athletes arrived on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Moses said those who had not returned were the team captain, Nuhu Batte, as well as one other male and two female team members.<\/p>\n<p>The boxing team members who returned home included a grandson of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, Aziz Abdul, who was disqualified for a headbutt in his quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p>Moses said it was \u201ctoo early to say that the four boxers disappeared\u201d, noting the athletes\u2019 UK visas were still valid and team members were free to visit friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>He said several team members were meant to return \u201clater this week\u201d and others at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is too early to call it disappearance. Let us wait until their visas expire,\u201d Moses said.<\/p>\n<p>The chief executive of the Games, Phil Batty, on Monday told the UK\u2019s PA Media news agency \u201cwe work really closely with Police Scotland, the Border Force and UK visas and immigration to make sure everyone arrives and departs in line with regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"container--ads in-article-ads\">\n<div class=\"ads\"><span class=\"ads__title\"> Advertisement <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Pakistani boxer was <a href=\"\/sports\/2026\/8\/5\/pakistan-and-uganda-athletes-missing-after-commonwealth-games\">also reported<\/a> to have failed to return home on schedule, according to regional media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ListenListen (2 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Nuhu Batte, Team Uganda boxing captain, is among those missing after Commonwealth Games in United Kingdom [Lintao Zhang\/Getty Images] By AFP Published On 6 Aug 20266 Aug 2026 Police in the United Kingdom have confirmed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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