Four US soldiers missing in Lithuania, embassy says

STOCKHOLM, March 26 (Reuters) - Four U.S. Army soldiers have gone missing in Lithuania during training, and the Baltic country's military and police are searching for them together with the American military, the U.S. embassy in Vilnius said on Wednesday.

The embassy said on social media X that the soldiers went missing in a training area near Pabrade in eastern Lithuania near the border with Belarus. It did not say when they went missing.

"The soldiers, all from 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, were conducting scheduled tactical training at the time of the incident," it said. "Search and recovery efforts are underway."