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El Salvador has sent 2,000 troops to Haiti to search for four military personnel who went missing in an ambush on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. BBC World reported the deployment on 29 October 2026. The soldiers disappeared after the ambush near the Haitian capital, and the troops are working to locate and recover them. The reports did not give details of the ambush, the armed group involved or the status of the missing personnel.