Hundreds of Lithuanians on Thursday paid their respects to four US soldiers who died when their vehicle sank in a peat bog at a military training ground in the Baltic state. Lithuanian authorities received a report last week that the soldiers had gone missing during a military drill at a training ground in the eastern city of Pabrade,

Lithuanian leaders joined thousands of people on Thursday to bid farewell to four American soldiers who died during a training exercise in the country.

The U.S. soldiers had been at the center of a recovery mission in Lithuania for nearly a week after their armored vehicle sank near the country's border with Belarus.