New Delhi: With a family of four Indians, including a baby, found dead near the US-Canadian border, government sources here said the Indian mission associated with Canadian authority to ensure the details of the tragedy and post-mortem victims would likely be carried out on January 24 .
The US authorities have arrested seven people without the right documentation, as well as a US citizen, for allegedly involved in human smuggling activities from Canada to the US, they said.
Resources said that on January 19, US authorities in Minnesota stated that near the US-Canadian border, found a group of people who seemed to be the right documentation.
Based on information obtained from them, Canadian authorities launched a search and found four bodies in Manitoba Province on the Canadian border side, they said.
These four people – a man, a woman, a teenage boy and baby – seems to have died because of cold, the source said.
People without the right documentation on the US, and the dead on the Canadian side, it seems that Indian citizens, they said.
However, further efforts are being carried out to identify them and confirm their nationality, sources added.
Post-Mortem victims are likely to be carried out on January 24, the source said.
“The US authorities have arrested seven people without the right documentation, as well as a US citizen, because it was allegedly involved in human smuggling activities from Canada to the US.
One of them was still hospitalized due to a cold-related injury.
Previously other people were treated at home Pain, “said the source.
The Indian Consulate in Toronto immediately sent a consular team to Manitoba, which is now related to local authorities to provide consular assistance about four dead, the source said.
The Consulate General and High Commission in Ottawa are also related to the Provincial and Federal Authority of Canada to ensure the details of this tragedy, they said.
On the US side, the Indian Consulate in Chicago has immediately sent a consular team to Minneapolis, which now coordinates and provides consular assistance.
They have been looking for consular access to people who are detained, said source.
Consulate and Embassy in Washington D.C.
It is also related to the US Department of Justice, and US customs and border police.
Mission and Post India will continue to extend all help, said source.
Criminal complaints were submitted on Thursday in the US District Court for Minnesota Regency against US 47-year-old citizens Steve Shand, who had been charged with human smuggling.
On Thursday, Manitoba Police Royal Canadian Mounted (RCMP) said that the body of four people – two adults, a teenager and baby – found on the Canadian side of the US / Canadian border near the Emerson area in South Central in South Central Manitoba on Wednesday .
The family, which was believed by Gujarat, died of extreme cold weather exposure.