Their remains were found yards away from the border, police said, and an autopsy is pending.
A search began Wednesday morning, MacLatchy said, after police received what she described as “concerning information” from US Customs and Border Protection about a group of people who’d been apprehended after crossing into the United States from Canada.
“One of the adults was carrying items meant for an infant, but … no infant was found with the group,” MacLatchy said.
Contents
The bag contained a diaper, toys and medicine
A man in the group, an Indian national identified in a US federal court filing as “V.D.,” told investigators the backpack he was carrying belonged to a family who’d gotten separated from the group.
The backpack, according to the Thursday filing, contained children’s clothes, children’s medication, a diaper and toys.
“V.D. said that he was carrying the backpack for a family of four Indian nationals that had earlier been walking with his group,” says the complaint, which was filed in US District Court for Minnesota. “V.D. said that his group had been separated from the family during the night, and he did not know where the family was.”
Victims were ‘left on their own in the middle of a blizzard’
That information sparked a search that swiftly began on both sides of the border, MacLatchy said. The remains — a man, a woman, an infant and another male believed to be a teenager — were found hours later, she said, noting that Canadian investigators were still working to identify them.
“Please understand that it’s going to take time to identify the names, ages and nationalities of these deceased victims,” she said. “You’ll also note that I’m using the term ‘victims.’ And that’s on purpose.”
Investigators, she said, are concerned the attempted crossing “may have been facilitated in some way.”
“We’re very concerned…that these individuals, including an infant, were left on their own in the middle of a blizzard, when the weather hovered around -35 degrees Celsius (-31…
Source : cnn
