Four people, including infant, found dead near Canada/U.S. border in Manitoba
in a release Friday afternoon that the four people appear to have been part of a larger group of Indian nationals crossing the border, who became separated during the hours-long trek through the snow.The group was apparently headed to the St.
Vincent, Minn., area, and were expecting to be picked up by someone when they crossed the border. Two members of the surviving group also suffered serious injuries and were taken to hospital.The 47-year-old suspect is in custody pending a preliminary and detention hearing Monday.RCMP continued to scour the area after the bodies were discovered, but no further victims have been found.“It’s very difficult terrain,” said MacLatchy. “When they originally started the search, they realized very quickly that the snow was very deep, drifted in spots.“They needed all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, those sorts of things.
Because of the winter conditions right now, it’s virtually impassable.”“It’s absolutely shocking that this has happened,” RM of Emerson-Franklin Reeve Dave Carlson told 680 CJOB. “What a tragedy.“You just try to figure out why there would be that kind of desperation to cross the border in such terrible weather conditions.
Crossing the border in the best of times, you know, is dangerous.”Carlson said the crossings “do happen from time to time” but said migrant crossings have slowed down in the past few years, adding that people crossing from Canada to the U.S.
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