Another 75 Guatemalan soldiers arrive in Haiti to battle gangs

A contingent of security forces from Guatemala arrives in Haiti for a security mission, at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti January 4, 2025. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A second group of 75 Guatemalan soldiers arrived in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Saturday to boost a United Nations-backed mission tasked with restoring order amid chaos wrought by gangs, the mission said.

Another 75 soldiers arrived a day earlier, taking the total Guatemalan troop numbers to 150. All the reinforcements come from Guatemala's military police unit, Guatemala's government said in a statement.

A further eight soldiers from El Salvador also arrived on Friday.

(Reporting by Harold Isaac, Editing by Franklin Paul; Writing by Drazen Jorgic)