El Salvador’s Bukele Says Bodies Found in Haiti Are Not Those of Missing Salvadorans
SAN SALVADOR—El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele on Saturday denied that human remains handed over to his military teams at Haiti’s airport were the bodies of the four Salvadorans reported missing after coming under attack by gangs on Oct. 18. The four missing Salvadorans are members of a gang suppression force established by the U.N. Security Council to combat organized crime in the Caribbean nation. Bukele has clarified that the Salvadorans are aviation technicians, not troops trained for combat. On X, Bukele wrote that a nongovernmental organization handed over the remains of a child, a man “of considerably greater height than that of our air technicians,” and another person wearing a uniform different from those worn by Salvadoran personnel....
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has denied that human remains found in Haiti belong to four Salvadorans who went missing after a gang attack on October 18th. The missing individuals are aviation technicians, not combat troops. Bukele stated that the handed-over remains were of a child, a taller man, and another person in a different uniform.
- President Nayib Bukele denied that human remains found in Haiti were those of four missing Salvadorans.
- The four Salvadorans were reported missing after a gang attack on October 18th.
- Bukele clarified that the missing individuals are aviation technicians, not combat troops.
- A nongovernmental organization handed over the remains, which Bukele described as a child, a taller man, and a person in an unfamiliar uniform.
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