2,000 Salvadoran troops deploy to Haiti to help fight gangs

A convoy of heavily armed Salvadoran troops was seen in the Tabaré neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, on Friday. They are part of 2,000 troops that El Salvador President Nayib Bukele deployed to the embattled country this week. The deployment followed a gang attack on four Salvadoran members of the gang suppression force who went missing. The Haitian government says they were abducted. The Kelly Rod on X Thursday that his country quote only wants to bring home the four missing aviation technicians end of quote. Social media in Haiti was awash this week with videos of gang leaders defying El Salvador's president and promising to quote outgun his troops, but no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. A convoy seen in Port-au-Prince on Friday included new armoured vehicles with soldiers carrying automatic weapons. More than 5,700 people have been killed or wounded in Haiti from January to mid-September, according to the UN. Despite the deployment of more personnel, gangs still control large parts of Haiti, including in the capital, Port-au-Prince.