Four US soldiers reported missing in Lithuania have been killed, NATO’s Rutte confirms
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Four United States Army soldiers have died in Lithuania during training, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said while visiting Warsaw on Wednesday.
Lithuania's military earlier on Wednesday said they were searching for four U.S. soldiers and a tracked vehicle which had gone missing on Tuesday afternoon.
"Whilst I was speaking the news came out about four American soldiers who were killed in an incident in Lithuania," Rutte told journalists, adding that he did not know any details, News.Az reports, citing Reuters.
The soldiers 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.
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