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Around 1,000 soldiers from El Salvador have deployed to Haiti, source says

Straits Times27 October 2026, 17:56 UTCHaiti

Oct 27 - Around 1,000 soldiers from El Salvador have been sent to Haiti in a string of deployments in recent days after four Salvadoran members of the UN-backed force in Haiti went missing, a security official in Haiti told Reuters on Tuesday.

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