El Salvador president says troops destroyed 400 Mawozo gang headquarters in Haiti

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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Tuesday that Salvadoran troops demolished the headquartersof the 400 Mawozo gang in Haiti,one of the country s...

A Salvadoran Army soldier stands guard at their encampment in the Tabarre neighborhood after their arrival in Port-au-Prince,Haiti, on October 31,2026. Photo by CLARENS SIFFROY / AFP

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Tuesday that Salvadoran troops demolished the headquarters of the 400 Mawozo gang in Haiti, one of the country's largest criminal syndicates.

Bukele has deployed more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti since late October, after four Salvadoran troops went missing in the country.

"We destroyed the house of (gang leader) Lanmo San Jou and the 400 Mawozo gang's headquarters," he wrote on X in the Haitian Creole language.

Bukele posted video of at least three helicopters circling overhead and firing on the two-story house in Croix-des-Bouquets, near the capital Port-au-Prince. People are seen fleeing the area.

The Miami Herald newspaper reported that the attack took place on Sunday and was conducted by a Haitian police task force backed by Salvadoran troops. Twenty people died, it wrote on Monday, citing anonymous sources.

The gang leader, whose real name is Wilson Joseph, was not in the house at the time of the attack, media in El Salvador reported.

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