El Salvador president says bodies found in Haiti are not those of hostages
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Four bodies handed over to special forces on a mission to Haiti to recover Salvadoran hostages are “not our men”, El Salvador’s president has said.
Nayib Bukele said a nongovernmental organisation delivered the human remains to one of Haiti’s airports claiming they were four El Salvadoran air technicians, but that one of the corpses was a child’s and another was wearing a different country’s army uniform.
He had dispatched a military contingent, reportedly of hundreds of soldiers, on Thursday after the four men vanished after being ambushed by “heavily armed criminal groups”.