El Salvador sends 2,000 troops to Haiti to rescue four missing soldiers
SAN SALVADOR — El Salvador sent more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti, the government said Wednesday, to support a mission to rescue four soldiers serving in a UN-backed force missing after an ambush. The soldiers with the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) disappeared on October 18 when attackers targeted their armored vehicle as they were returning to base from a market outside the capital Port-au-Prince. “El Salvador will continue with the operational deployment of more than two thousand soldiers to re
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BBC News: The troops are trying to recover four military personnel who went missing in an ambush on the outskirts of the Haitian capital Port-au-Princ
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Al Jazeera: El Salvador troops to support rescue mission to find four UN-backed soldiers who disappeared after ambush.
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Inquirer.net (PH): SAN SALVADOR — El Salvador sent more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti, the government said Wednesday, to support a mission to rescue four soldie
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