VILNIUS, March 26 (Reuters) – A vehicle used by four U.S. Army soldiers that went missing on Tuesday afternoon in Lithuania has been found submerged in water and the search for the missing soldiers is continuing, the U.S Army said on Wednesday.
“The M88 Hercules armored recovery vehicle the four missing U.S. Soldiers were operating during a training exercise has been located in Lithuania,” it said in a statement.
While on a visit to Warsaw, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said earlier on Wednesday that the soldiers had died but that he did not know any details.

Lithuania’s military later wrote on social media X that it was continuing an “intensive” rescue operation and had no information confirming the deaths.

The soldiers had been training near Pabrade in eastern Lithuania near the border with Belarus, the U.S. Army said.

“The soldiers, all from 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, were conducting scheduled tactical training at the time of the incident,” the army said in an earlier statement.

Reporting by Anna Ringstrom, Essi Lehto, Karol Badohal and Andrius Sytas; editing by Stine Jacobse, Terje Solsvik and Mark Heinrich

Source| Reuters