Missing US Soldier Found Dead Along Shoreline in Morocco

The remains of a missing US soldier who disappeared earlier this month during African Lion, a training exercise in Morocco, have been recovered.

Lamont Key Jr. and another US service member went missing on May 2.

The other service member, who has not yet been identified, has not been recovered yet.

“A Moroccan military search team found the Soldier in the water along the shoreline at approximately 8:55 a.m. local time, May 9, within roughly one mile of where both Soldiers reportedly entered the ocean,” U.S Army Europe and Africa said in a statement.

The two soldiers were off duty when they reportedly went missing while they were hiking.

The two fell off a cliff and into the Atlantic Ocean.

Morocco and France assisted the US in the search for the missing US service members.

“The search for the two U.S. soldiers has covered more than 4,600 square miles of sea and coastal area, said Col. Alex C. Tignor, a spokesman for the Army’s Southern European Task Force, Africa, in an email Saturday,” Stars and Stripes reported.

CBS News reported:

The body of an American soldier who went missing in Morocco has been recovered, the U.S. Army announced on Sunday. He was one of two U.S. service members who disappeared just over a week ago in waters off Morocco’s southern coast. The other remains missing, authorities said.

A Moroccan military search team recovered the body of the soldier, identified as First Lieutenant Lamont Key Jr., along the shoreline, about a mile from where both soldiers vanished in the ocean on May 2, the U.S. Army said.

The second serviceman has not been identified. Both were taking part in African Lion, an annual training exercise, although defense officials previously told CBS News the incident was not believed to be related to the exercise.