VILNIUS (Reuters) -Four United States Army soldiers have died in Lithuania during training, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said while visiting Warsaw on Wednesday.
“Whilst I was speaking the news came out about four American soldiers who were killed in an incident in Lithuania,” Rutte told reporters, adding 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 military earlier on Wednesday said it was searching for four U.S. soldiers and a tracked vehicle which had gone missing on Tuesday afternoon.
They had been training near Pabrade in eastern Lithuania near the border with Belarus, the U.S. Army said in a statement.
“The soldiers, all from 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, were conducting scheduled tactical training at the time of the incident,” the statement read.
(Reporting by Anna Ringstrom, Essi Lehto, Karol Badohal and Andrius Sytas; editing by Stine Jacobse, Terje Solsvik and Mark Heinrich)
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