Another 75 Guatemalan soldiers arrive in Haiti to counter gangs

PHOTO CAPTION: Illustrative photo — A Guatemalan service member is seen during a training competition, June 16, 2022, in La Venta, Honduras. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Carolina Sierra via U.S. Defense Visual Information Distribution Service)

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)

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