People displaced by armed gang attacks take refuge at the town hall of the Kenscoff neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Members of a U.N.-backed El Salvadoran police force walk on the tarmac of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport after landing in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025.(AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Members of a U.N.-backed El Salvador police force walk on the tarmac of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport after landing in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Haiti's Transitional Presidential Council President Leslie Voltaire, left, greets a member of the U.N.-backed Salvador police force at Toussaint Louverture International Airport after arriving in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
A plane transporting police officers from El Salvador, who are part of a UN-backed multinational force, lands at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A military contingent from El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Tuesday to bolster a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police to help fight gangs that killed thousands of people last year and control much of the capital.
The 70 soldiers will provide expertise in air support, which Kenyan officials said will be critical for medical evacuations.
The Salvadorans are the latest to join the mission in recent months.
Additional police officers from Kenya for a total of more than 600 now in Haiti. They have been joined by police, soldiers and other officials from countries including Jamaica and Guatemala.
Gang violence keeps surging across Port-au-Prince and beyond, with gunmen in recent days .
The U.S. and other countries have warned that the Kenya-led mission as they push to transform it into a U.N.-peacekeeping mission.
More than 5,600 people were reported killed last year across Haiti and more than 2,200 others were injured. Gang violence in recent years, according to the U.N.
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