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Bukele says Haiti bodies are not Salvadoran hostages
BBC News·
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said four bodies handed to a Haiti recovery mission are not the missing Salvadoran hostages. He said one corpse was a child's and another wore a different army's uniform. About 450 Salvadoran soldiers have been deployed, Haitian paper Le Nouvelliste reported. The four men served with the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force.
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What It Means For You
- Families and officials still lack confirmed identities for the four missing GSF air technicians.
- Bukele said the mission's purpose was to return the men alive.
- The New York Times had reported the Port-au-Prince remains were thought to be the missing men.
What's Happening
- The men were ambushed in Croix-des-Bouquets while returning to camp in an armoured vehicle.
- Bukele posted ID material he said belonged to other countries, including a Chad national ID.
- BBC said an unnamed source claimed the Chad ID belonged to an injured soldier who had lost it.
What Bukele says he received
- More than 5,700 people were killed or injured by gangs or anti-gang operations from January 1 to September 11, the UN said.
- Haiti's insecurity deepened after the 2021 presidential assassination, the BBC noted.
- No gang had claimed responsibility for the ambush when the report published.
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