Police seek missing Burundi robotics teens seen at Canadian border
By Reuters
22 July 2017 |
1:00 pm
U.S. law enforcement authorities are seeking six teenagers from Burundi who went missing after an academic robotics competition in Washington, D.C. Two of them were spotted crossing the border into Canada.
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