Ten Danish soldiers have failed to return from a training exercise prompting a helicopter search in Finnmark.

Police helicopters and drones, rescue dogs, the Red Cross, the Armed Forces are all now searching for the missing unit.

Operations Manager Jørgen Haukland Hansen in Finnmark Police District said the soldiers should have returned to base no later than 7am this morning.

He told Dagbladet that police were notified by at 4.37pm, and they immediately requisitioned resources.

He said: ‘One of the options is the soldiers is may have misunderstood the meeting time.

‘The other is that something may have happened to them, and that is why we have now initiated a search.’

The search was initiated at 6.30pm, the operations manager said.

Finnmark is an area ‘where East meets West’ borderi

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