Bodies of ambushed Salvadoran soldiers found in Haiti

Four bodies handed over to Salvadoran forces on Saturday do not belong to the four soldiers who had been ambushed the previous Sunday outside the capital of Haiti, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said, contradicting a New York Times report.



"They are not our men," Bukele said in a post on X, hours after The New York Times reported that the bodies had been found and were believed to be those of the Salvadoran soldiers.



The four went missing on Sunday after they jumped from a burning armored vehicle that came under attack on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince while they were returning from a market to their base.



Bukele said the four bodies handed over included a child, a man much taller than the Salvadorans and a soldier from another country. He shared photos of a soldier's identification from Chad.



The ambush was the first major attack on the Gang Suppression Force, a UN-authorized multinational mission, since it began operations in Haiti this year. The international security mission declined to comment on the matter.