APA – Kigali (Rwanda) – Ten players from the Burundi U-19 handball team are missing in Croatia, Sports sources confirmed to APA Thursday.
They disappeared from their hotel during the World Cup in Croatia.
Reports indicate that almost all of Burundi’s under-19 handball team has been missing since Sunday: they traveled to Croatia for the World Cup and stayed at a hotel in Rijeka.
The Burundian national team arrived on August 2nd and the matches concluded on August 13th.
When it came time to head back to Africa, the 10 players – all born in 2006 – suddenly disappeared. They were last seen in the late afternoon. Only three teammates stayed behind.
The team was scheduled to play two more matches against its Bahraini and New Zealand counterparts, namely And with cancellation.
It is not clear why the young men disappeared so suddenly. One guess is that the athletes have been planning the escape for some time. There is a suspicion that young people secretly want to travel to Germany or other northern European countries To submit an application for political asylum.
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