New Delhi: Post Mortem of four people who died of colds near the US – Canadian borders will be carried out on January 24, according to sources.
The Indian Consulate General in Toronto has sent a consular team to Manitoba, which is now related to local authorities to provide consular assistance about four dead.
The Consulate General and High Commission in Ottawa also associated with the provincial and Canadian Federal Authorities to ensure the details of this tragedy.
The US authorities have arrested seven people without the right documentation, and one US citizen, for allegedly involved in human smuggling activities from Canada to the US.
One of them was still hospitalized due to a cold-related injury (previously one person was hospitalized).
The source told Ani: “On the US side, the Indian Consulate General in Chicago has immediately sent a consular team to Minneapolis, who now coordinate and provide consular assistance.
They have been looking for consular access to people who are detained.
Consulate and Embassy in Washington DC Also relating to the US Department of Justice, and US Customs and Border Police.
“On January 19, US authorities in Minnesota stated, near the US border – Canada, found a group of people who seemed to be the right documentation.
Based on information obtained from them, Canada’s authority launched a search and found four bodies in Manitoba Province on the Canadian border side.
These four people (a man, a woman, a teenage boy, a baby) seems to have died because of cold.
The Mission and Post India will continue to extend all the help of other sources to Ani.