US army says rescuers recovered the bodies after a six-day effort to dig an armoured vehicle out of a peat bog
Three of the four US soldiers missing in Lithuania since last week were found dead on Monday, the US army said after rescuers recovered their armoured vehicle from a peat bog. The fourth soldier is still missing.
The Lithuanian authorities received a report on Tuesday that the soldiers went missing on an expansive training ground in the eastern city of Pabradė, near the border with Belarus. The soldiers were on a tactical training exercise when they and their vehicle were reported missing, the US army said.
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