The NATO general secretary, Mark Rutteannounced Wednesday during a visit to Warsovia La Death of four American soldiers during some Military maneuvers in the Lithuanian town of Pabradenear the border with Belaruswithout having transcended details at the moment, although everything points to an accident. “While I was talking, I got the news about four American soldiers who died in an incident in Lithuania“Rutte said during a colloquium held at the ‘Warsaw School of Economics’ University Center, although he said he did not yet know the details of the event.
The Armed Forces of Lithuania had announced on Tuesday that four American soldiers and a vehicle had disappeared during some exercises in the general training field Silvestras Zukauskas in Pabrade, in the southeast of the Baltic Country.
Lithuanian and foreign soldiers were deployed for search tasks, together with Air Force helicopters and the Lithuanian Border Guard Service, while the Minister of Lithuanian Defense, Dovile Sakaliene, moved to the place on Wednesday. For its part, the US army reported that the soldiers were performing tactical maneuvers and belonged to the third infantry division, first brigade.
Although official information about the cause of the death of the military has not yet transcended, sources cited by the half -lithuanian ’15min’ pointed out that their vehicle or a river or a lake could have fallen inside and having drowned drowning. An US Army source cited by the newspaper ‘The New York Times’ also pointed out that the soldiers were aboard a heavy vehicle of type M88, which could have left the road and submerged in a ciénaga, leaving them trapped inside.
