Ahmedabad: Shops remain closed and quiet streets in Dingucha Village in Gandhinagar Gujarat district on Saturday when the villagers pay homage to four family members, who died because they were very cold near the Canadian-US border recently.
Family Patel Gujarat was not the only victim, 3 more value shared the sadness of the patel family, who lost their four members, including two children, by suspending work and walking along the windows of the shops on the market, the carriers of the local office said.
The village, from which a large number of people have migrated abroad, especially to the US, Canada and Australia over the past few decades, wearing a lonely appearance on Saturday, said locals.
The majority of local residents belong to the Patidar community.
Initially, the village was not ready to believe that four people, including babies, who died on the US-Canadian border belonging to the Baldevbhai Family Patel, they said.
However, they were then provided with the difficulty of the difficult facts that the deceased was his son Jagdish Patel (39), Daughter-in-law Vaishali (37), Grand Daughter Vihea (11), and grandchildren Dharmik (3), after the Canadian authority confirmed their identity.
After confirming identity, relatives and several local women have gathered at the Ancestral House of the Patel family in Dingucha on Friday to lament death.
In accordance with the Canadian authority, the Family Patel arrived in Toronto on January 12, 2022.
From there, they made their way to Manitoba and finally for Emerson around January 18, the day before they were left near the border due to extreme exposure to weather conditions.
Relatives have been on Friday saying that the body of four deceased would not be brought back to India.
“The whole family is in-depth shock …
until now, we have all decided not to bring bodies here for cremation.
The last rite will be carried out in Canada itself,” said Jaswant Patel, Cousin Patel Jagdish, said.
Death on the US border: GUJ VILLAGERS paid homage to the family
