A fourth dead American soldier was found in Lithuania

The US military said the body of the fourth US military on Tuesday in Lithuania, a week after the soldier and three others lost when the armored vehicle they were riding in a quagmire was disappeared.

The army did not immediately issue the name of the fourth soldier, whose body was found a day after the other three dead soldiers were found after a comprehensive international effort to research hundreds of individuals from Lithuania, the United States, Poland and Estonia.

The loss of the four American soldiers, from the first armored brigade team, the third infantry department, was reported on early March 25, when they did not return from a training mission in the Hercules M88a2, a 70 -tons car is mainly a giant military cloud truck.

The army said they were sent to extract another army vehicle. But the soldiers may have been expelled from the road to a deep swamp, and they seem to be trapped inside while the car sank, according to an army official in Europe. The American army is investigating the cause of the accident.

Rescue workers have identified the car on March 26, but extracting it from mud proved that it was a hard geometric challenge. Heavy equipment was brought to the swamp bulldozer, divers, dogs and drones were deployed-including one equipped with a land penetration radar-in recovery efforts.

The US military did not say where the body of the fourth soldier was found. The soldiers were training near Babadi, a city in Eastern Lithuania near the border with Belarus.

“I cannot say enough about the support our Lithuanian allies provided to us He said in a statement. “We have been blessed with them, and we have enabled, along with our Polish and Estonian allies – our sailors, pilots and experts from the Corps of Engineers – enabled us to find our soldiers and bring them home.”

Lithuanian leaders pointed to the international recovery effort to emphasize the value of NATO allies working together amid an increasing warning in Lithuania and other Baltic countries that will weaken President Trump’s NATO alliance.

On Tuesday, President Gitanas Nazia from Lithuania, who visited the accident, said that “my heart -heart condolences to our allies and people.”

“Lithuania was praying for all the four missing soldiers, and now, with all our hearts, we stand with their families,” he He said on social media. “We are very grateful to everyone who has devoted huge efforts to find the remaining soldier who is still missing under these difficult circumstances.”