Three of four US soldiers missing in Lithuania found dead

Rescuers recover bodies after six-day effort to dig armoured vehicle out of peat bog, but one soldier is still missing

Three of the four US soldiers missing in Lithuania since last week have been found dead, 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 Pabrad, 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.

Agence France-Presse and Associated Press contributed to this report