El Salvador deploys 2,000 troops to Haiti to find missing soldiers
Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 29 Oct, 08:10 · Archive
El Salvador is deploying more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti to search for four missing air force technicians and support gang suppression efforts.
El Salvador has deployed more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti to search for four missing Salvadoran aviation technicians and support gang suppression efforts. The four disappeared on 18 October after an ambush in Croix-des-Bouquets, east of Port-au-Prince. They were serving with an international security mission supporting Haitian police.
President Nayib Bukele said bodies Haiti handed over earlier this week did not belong to the missing personnel. He noted that one corpse was a child's and another was wearing a different country's military uniform. Bukele has threatened to replicate action taken in El Salvador against gangs if they did not release the Salvadorans.
El Salvador's foreign ministry said the deployment was a 'robust' and 'large-scale operation' supported by various countries and international organisations. It remains unclear whether the additional troops will join the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force or operate separately. The move comes as Haiti postpones its elections again, with voting now scheduled for July 2027.
How it is being reported
- El Salvador pledges more than 2,000 soldiers as Haiti delays electionsEl Salvador troops to support rescue mission to find four UN-backed soldiers who disappeared after ambush.Al Jazeera · 29 Oct, 07:36
- El Salvador sends 2,000 troops to Haiti to rescue four missing soldiersThe troops are trying to recover four military personnel who went missing in an ambush on the outskirts of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.BBC World · 29 Oct, 06:24
In this story: El Salvador · Haiti · Nayib Bukele · Alix Didier Fils-Aime · Port-au-Prince · Croix-des-Bouquets · Gang Suppression Force
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