{
  "id": 16484514,
  "title": "El Salvador president says bodies found in Haiti are not those of hostages",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/el-salvador-president-says-bodies-found-in-haiti-are-not-those-of-16484514",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-25T14:31:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "KahawaTungu",
    "slug": "kahawatungu",
    "url": "https://kahawatungu.com/el-salvador-president-says-bodies-found-in-haiti-are-not-those-of-hostages/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has stated that four bodies handed over to his country's special forces in Haiti are not the remains of the four Salvadoran hostages. An NGO delivered the human remains to a Haitian airport, claiming them to be the bodies of four El Salvadoran air technicians, but Bukele pointed out that one of the corpses was a child's and another was wearing a different country's army uniform. The hostages were part of the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force (GSF), which had deployed a large military contingent to counter increased gang violence in Haiti. The bodies were said to have been found in an area of Haiti controlled by armed groups called Croix-des-Bouquets. However, the GSF has not confirmed the remains belong to the missing personnel. Bukele had dispatched around 450 soldiers in response to the ambush of the four men who were travelling back to their camp in an armoured vehicle.",
  "summary": "Four bodies handed over to special forces on a mission to Haiti to recover Salvadoran hostages are “not our men”, El Salvador’s president has said. Nayib Bukele said a nongovernmental organisation delivered the human remains to one of Haiti’s airports claiming they were four El Salvadoran air technicians, but that one of the corpses was [...] The post El Salvador president says bodies found in…",
  "key_points": [
    "Bodies in Haiti are not Salvadoran hostages, President Bukele confirms",
    "One corpse is a child, another wears foreign army uniform",
    "GSF has not confirmed remains belong to missing personnel"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "BBC World",
        "title": "El Salvador president says bodies found in Haiti are not those of hostages",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/el-salvador-president-says-bodies-found-in-haiti-are-not-those-of",
        "published": "2026-10-25T10:55:33.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}