Afrocoon robotics team from Burundi competion held in DC: 2/6 flee to Canada

[voiceofreason]

http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/dc/missing-6-teens-with-burundi-robotics-team/458129186

2 Burundi teens in Canada, others still missing after robotics competition in DC
6:21 PM. EDT July 20, 2017

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) - Two teenagers part of the robotics team from Burundi reportedly crossed into Canada, D.C. police confirmed. The other four teens are still missing.

The teenagers who were competing in FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition in D.C. were reported missing to D.C. police on Wednesday, according to police documents. They all went missing after the competition.

D.C. police confirmed that Audrey Mwamikazi, 17 and Don Ingabire, 16 were both were seen crossing into Canada Thursday morning. The others are still missing. Police do not believe the others are in any danger.

All six of the teenagers have one year visas, according to the police report.

Their families have been notified and the coach has flown back home, the embassy of Burundi said.

The following teens are still missing and were last seen Tuesday in the 1700 block of D Street, D.C. police said.

Aristide Irambona, 18, black male with dark complexion, 5'6" and 130 pounds

Nice Munezero, 17, black female with dark complexion, 5'7" and 140 pounds

Kevin Sabumukiza, 17, black male with medium complexion, 6'4" and 160 pounds

Richard Irakoze, 18, black male with dark complexion, 5'11" and 140 pounds

The following teens have made it to Canada:

Audrey Mwamikazi, 17, black female with dark complexion, 5'3" and 130 pounds (crossed into Canada)

Don Ingabire, 16, black male with medium complexion, 5'8" and 130 pounds (crossed into Canada)

 

[Gman]

I bet the robots these primitives built were laughable. Probably made robots that walk around holding their dicks..

 

[*marbusfeld]

Lol!
I really expected whatever they had (made for them) ambulated by its arms acting as feet.
Like this,


I think these are sold in Toys R Us

 

[voiceofreason]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...056e768a7e5_story.html?utm_term=.baa6f5836611

Two of six African teens who went missing from robotics competition are in Canada, D.C. police say
July 20

Hordes of teenagers displaying colors and flags from 157 countries cheered wildly in DAR Constitution Hall on Tuesday afternoon, exhausted and exhilarated from two days of robotics competitions. Somewhere on the packed auditorium floor, six teenagers from Burundi quietly slipped away amid the closing gala.

D.C. police said the 16 to 18 year olds from the small African country were long gone by the time their chaperone reported them missing early Wednesday and police later posted their photos on the Internet . By Thursday morning, police said Don Charu Ingabire, 16, and Audrey Mwamikazi, 17, were in Canada with friends or family and the other four were somewhere in the U.S., not yet with relatives but believed to be safe.

How and why the students or others orchestrated what appears to authorities a well-planned but very secret bid for possible asylum in Canada and the U.S. remains a mystery. Neither the students nor their relatives could be reached, and the organizer of the competition and a representative of the Burundi Embassy called their disappearance a surprise.

The robotics competition had run into a problem even before the Burundi team left when a team from Afghanistan was initially barred from getting visas. U.S. officials are wary of approving visa requests to some groups of scholarship students, academic fellows and teachers, afraid they might not return home