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Title: Whole Asian family died trying to cross the border to America
Post by: theking on January 30, 2022, 08:40:00 PM

Canadian authorities believe the deaths of four Indian nationals found steps away from the Canada-US border are connected to a human smuggling scheme. Jagdish Patel, 39, Vaishailben Patel, 37, and their children Vihangi, 11, and Dharkmik, 3, died from exposure due to the frigid cold in Manitoba, Canada.

Temperatures dropped to -35C (-31F) on the night the Patel family attempted to cross into the US on foot.

The family was found in a field just north of the border on 19 January.

Their identities were announced by Canada's High Commission of India and later confirmed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

The family hailed from Dingucha, a village in Gujarat in the district of Gandhinagar, where neighbours who spoke to the BBC said the Patels were known to have travelled to Canada about ten days ago on visitor visas.
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/24D9/production/_123033490_patels.jpg)

Title: Re: Whole Asian family died trying to cross the border to America
Post by: theking on February 11, 2022, 10:27:12 PM

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60290955#:~:text=The%20night%20Vaishaliben%20Patel%2C%20her,than%2035%20degrees%20below%20freezing. (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60290955#:~:text=The%20night%20Vaishaliben%20Patel%2C%20her,than%2035%20degrees%20below%20freezing.)

The family that froze to death a world away from home

The night Vaishaliben Patel, her husband Jagdish and their two children set out for the US-Canadian border they dressed in new heavy winter coats and snow boots. Temperatures where they walked, in Emerson, Manitoba, had dropped more than 35 degrees below freezing.

The young family had probably never experienced temperatures that low before. Even on its coldest day, the Patels' home village in western India would not have reached within 10 degrees of freezing.

As they walked - maybe for a couple of hours, maybe for more - sharp winds carried snow and shards of ice across the plains, reducing visibility to nothing.

Canadian police found the four of them - Vaishaliben, 37, Jagdish, 39, their daughter, Vihangi, 11 and son, Dharmik, 3 - lying together, frozen, in an empty field on 19 January. They had died 12 metres from the US border.
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/14320/production/_123202728_emerson_sign1.jpg)

Title: Re: Whole Asian family died trying to cross the border to America
Post by: Visualmon on February 12, 2022, 01:18:54 AM

Man, that's bad timing to travel through 10 degrees of snow.