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Search under way for missing Ugandan weightlifter

An official noticed the athlete was missing during a PCR test.
An official noticed the athlete was missing during a PCR test.

A Ugandan athlete in Japan for the Olympics has gone missing, and the team's host city in western Japan is conducting a search with police, Japan's top government spokesman said on Friday.

Public broadcaster NHK reported the athlete was a weightlifter, and that an official at the host city, Izumisano, in Osaka prefecture, noticed he was missing during a PCR test.

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