According to the latest reports, eight people have already died while attempting to enter the US illegally from Canada, according to Canadian police, who also found the bodies of two additional migrants, including an Indian woman who drowned in a river. The victims were discovered on Friday in a marsh by a riverbank not far from Akwesasne, a town that lies on the border of three states, Quebec, Ontario, and New York. There is still one more person missing. The source stated that one infant, a Canadian citizen of Romanian heritage, was among the two other bodies found. The second featured an Indian national woman.It has been reported that among all of them, six are adults and two are children, one below the age of three had a Canadian passport and another infant also belonged to Canada. Police say that descent was trying to cross the St Lawrence River into the United States from Canada.“These things do, unfortunately, happen. Its nothing novel, “People trying to cross, according to Shawn Dulude, chief of the Akwesasne Mohawk Police. The officer was reported by the Montreal Gazette as saying, “Weve seen it happen in the past, and maybe as we move forward its something we can one day eliminate.” To help with victim identification and contacting the next of kin, Immigration Canada is collaborating with Akwesasne police. Also, it stated, they are stepping up their riverside monitoring.The report says, Around 5 pm on Thursday, during an airborne search requested by the Canada Coast Guard, authorities found the first body in the marsh. On Friday, search teams were visible wading through a marshy region close to the neighbourhood marina with the aid of a small airboat throughout the day. The river was also inspected by a helicopter. The final two bodies were pulled from the river in the day. Following the discovery of six dead and an overturned boat during a missing person search on Thursday afternoon, police discovered two additional victims from the river on Friday. The bodies are recovered in search of another missing person.Kevin Sturge Lazore, station 3 commander of the Akwasasne Fire Department, sent 15 volunteer firemen to search the river after Casey Oakes family reported him missing on Thursday. Over a dozen additional volunteers from various stations also contributed to the search. They said that when the firefighters found the boat, the bottom of the hull was dented as if it had struck ice or rock. The bat was too small, claimed Kevin Sturge Lazore and Lee-Ann OBrien, to safely transport seven or eight passengers.Four Indian migrants were found dead at the US border in January alsoEarlier, in the month of January this year, Police arrested two agents facilitating the illegal migration of an Indian Gujarati family for crossing the border and were frozen to death near the US-Canada border. A senior official said that agents were arrested from Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad. Reportedly, Jagdish Patel, his wife and two children from Dingucha village in Kalol taluka died apparently due to exposure to the cold weather conditions while crossing the US-Canada border. Reportedly, 11 of the persons from Gujarat, who tried to cross the US-Canada border were nabbed by US officials. Most of the people hailed from Kalol in Gandhinagar and Mehsana, Gujarat. Police also revealed that so-called crossing agents was wanted in the case and charged the victims Rs 60 lakh to Rs 65 lakh per person for illegal immigration. The Gujarat CID has registered a case for the offence of filing bogus documents with the illegal immigration case.
