The military did not return on time after the exercises on Thursday, October 2. A large-scale search operation is focused on the sites of evacuation exercises that took place near the border with Russia.
During the training, the military practiced camouflage skills. In total, a group of 10 soldiers disappeared. Five of them were found alive and unharmed. Three arrived at the agreed meeting place on their own, the other two were found by helicopter.
According to the head of the search operation, the police do not have any versions of what could have happened.
"At the moment, we don't know if they misunderstood the time of the return, or if something happened," said the head of the search operation, Jorgen Haukland Hansen.
In March, four U.S. Army soldiers went missing in Lithuania during military exercises at a training ground near the border with Belarus. Their armored car was found in a swamp, and they themselves were dead. korrespondent.net.
