The Indian government on Saturday said it was related to US and Canadian authorities to ensure the details of the tragedy in which four Indians died of cold exposure and that he had been seeking consular access to several other Indian citizens who had been detained by us.
for human trafficking.
The official source said that on January 19, US authorities in Minnesota near the US-Canadian border found a group of people who seemed to be the right documentation.
Based on information obtained from them, they added, the Canadian authority launched a search and found four bodies in Manitoba Province on the Canadian side.
“These four people (a man, a woman, a teenager, a baby) seems to have died because of the cold,” said an official “people without documentation right on the US side, and the dead on the Canadian side , it seems to be an Indian citizen.
However, efforts are being carried out to identify them …
Post-Mortem victims are likely to be carried out on January 24, “he said.
The official source confirmed the US authorities held seven people without the right documentation, as well as a US citizen, for allegedly involved in human smuggling from Canada to the US.
The Indian Consulate in Chicago has also sent a team to Minneapolis, who coordinates and provides consular assistance.
“They have been looking for consular access to people detained.
The Consulate and Embassy in Washington DC are also associated with the US Department of Justice, and US Customs and Border Police,” said an official.