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 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The United Nations said Tuesday it will send 350 more peacekeepers to Haiti in the latest effort to flush out armed gangs from the capital's slums.
The light infantry battalion of Nepalese soldiers began arriving this week and will be fully deployed by early March, the U.N. mission said in a statement.
Maj. Gen. Carlos Alberto Dos Santos Cruz, the Brazilian commander of the 9,000-strong U.N. force, said some of the Nepalese troops will be deployed as early as this week in Cite Soleil, a gang-controlled slum on the edge of the capital of Port-au-Prince.
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