Commonwealth Games chef de mission Godwin Kayangwe says he hopes the athletes will return home before their visas expire in October.

The team manager for the Ugandan Commonwealth Games team has told BBC Scotland News he has no idea why four boxers with the team have vanished. Two men and two women who competed for Uganda at the Games failed to turn up for their scheduled flights home and have since turned off their mobile phones. Media reports in Uganda, external suggested the four may be looking to seek asylum, but Uganda's chef de mission Godwin Kayangwe said he hoped the athletes would return home before their visas expire in October. Police say inquiries are ongoing into a number of Commonwealth athletes who have failed to turn up for homeward flights, but it is understood little can be done until the existing visas expire. The four boxers - Ibrahim Kemis, 20, Nuhu Batte, 22, Emily Nakalema, 32 and Angel Katushabe, 21 - were due to fly back to Uganda on Tuesday. Kayangwe said he has no idea why they have disappeared but suspects they are "probably still in Glasgow or somewhere in Europe." "I don't know anything about why they decided not to fly home but I know they communicated with their team manager and said they would be coming back. "But after that their phones went off, so they have definitely broken the camp rules because no athlete is supposed to leave without permission.