DHAKA: The Brazilian authorities have stopped two US swimmers -- Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger -- from boarding a flight at Rio de Janeiro airport.

Quoting the US Olympic Committee, the BBC reports the matter.

The two men were taken off a plane, bound for the US, for questioning late on Wednesday.

Two teammates - Ryan Lochte and James Feigen - were barred from leaving the country, but Lochte had already left.

Police have queried their accounts of a robbery they reported in Rio on Sunday.

The four swimmers said they had been robbed at gunpoint in a taxi in Rio.

But police say their account of when they arrived at the Olympic village does not square with CCTV recordings.

BDST: 1112 HRS, AUG 18, 2016
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