Burundi Robotics Team Goes Missing
Police suspect the teenagers are seeking asylum as two of them are spotted crossing the border to Canada.
by Aria Bendix
Jul 20, 2017
2 minutes
Six teenage members of the Burundi robotics team went missing after participating this week in an international competition in Washington, D.C., local police said Thursday. The competition—titled the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge—previously garnered attention after a team from Afghanistan was twice denied entry to the United States. President Trump later of their visa requests, and the
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