El Salvador joins UN-backed mission on the ground in Haiti to combat gang violence

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — 

A contingent from El Salvador arrived successful Haiti connected Tuesday to bolster a U.N.-backed ngo led by Kenyan constabulary to assistance combat gangs that killed thousands of radical past twelvemonth and power overmuch of the capital.

The 70 unit volition supply expertise successful aerial support, which Kenyan officials said volition beryllium captious for aesculapian evacuations.

The Salvadoreans are the latest to articulation the ngo successful caller months.

Additional constabulary officers from Kenya were deployed past period for a full of much than 600 present successful Haiti. They person been joined by police, soldiers and different officials from countries including Jamaica and Guatemala.

Gang unit keeps surging crossed Port-au-Prince and beyond, with gunmen successful caller days sidesplitting astatine slightest 40 radical successful an upscale community.

The U.S. and different countries person warned that the Kenya-led ngo lacks backing and unit arsenic they propulsion to alteration it into a U.N.-peacekeeping mission.

More than 5,600 radical were reported killed past twelvemonth crossed Haiti and much than 2,200 others were injured. Gang unit has near much than 1 cardinal radical stateless successful caller years, according to the U.N.