[Faline]

Seven athletes from Cameroon have disappeared from the Olympic village, according to officials.

All seven had visas allowing them to stay in the UK until November, though there are no reports any have claimed political asylum. The seven include five boxers, a swimmer and a footballer.

Team Cameroon's David Ojong told Cameroon media that of 60 athletes and officials at the village, 28 have gone home, 24 are still there and seven have just disappeared.

The missing athletes include all five of the team's boxers - Thomas Essomba, Christian Donfack Adjoufack, Abdon Mewoli, Blaise Yepmou Mendouo and Serge Abomo.

The others are Drusille Ngako, 25, a standby goalkeeper for Cameroon's women's team, and swimmer Paul Ekane Edingue, 21.

Le Messager, a private newspaper in Cameroon, reported that the athletes were supposed to fly back home on Sunday but had vanished.

It said they took their personal effects, a nearly $5,000 (£3,208) performance bonus and new sports equipment with them, citing an unnamed national Olympic official.

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[King Herald]

They'll turn up somewhere, probably in a welfare supplied house, with welfare checks coming in weekly, under assumed names. claiming asylum and that they'd be shot/tortured/eaten if they went home.

[DannyDrama]

Because this was never going to happen. You wait till the rest of them hear that nothing can be done.

[InbredMidget]

They're like undersized fish, just chuck them back in the ocean.

[ices]

Never had any of this in China.

Probably because they'd eat them over there.

[kellyhound]

i bet they turn up in France. they have visas to travel for 6 months in schengen countries.