Accused human smuggler on trial after family including 3-year-old freezes to death at Canada border
An accused human smuggler nicknamed “Dirty Harry” is set to stand trial Monday for the deaths of an Indian family with two young children, including a 3-year-old, who froze to death trying to cross the northern border into the US.
School teachers Jagdish Patel and his wife, Vaishaliben, along with their 11-year-old daughter, Vihangi, and 3-year-old son, Dharmik, attempted to walk across the US-Canadian border with a group of other migrants in temperatures as low as minus 36 degrees Fahrenheit on Jan. 19, 2022 — a treacherous journey allegedly coordinated by defendant Harshkumar Patel and a cohort.
Only seven of the 11 migrants in the group crossing into Minnesota from Canada were found alive. The Patel family was found dead by Canadian authorities — with the dad discovered clutching his son, who was wrapped in a blanket.
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School teachers Jagdish Patel and his wife, Vaishaliben, along with their 11-year-old daughter, Vihangi, and 3-year-old son, Dharmik, attempted to walk across the US-Canadian border with a group of other migrants in temperatures as low as minus 36 degrees Fahrenheit on Jan. 19, 2022 — a treacherous journey allegedly coordinated by defendant Harshkumar Patel and a cohort.
Only seven of the 11 migrants in the group crossing into Minnesota from Canada were found alive. The Patel family was found dead by Canadian authorities — with the dad discovered clutching his son, who was wrapped in a blanket.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2024/11/18/us-news/accused-human-smuggler-dubbed-dirty-harry-on-trial-after-family-including-3-year-old-boy-freezes-to-death-at-canada-border/
#canada #migrant #trial #smuggler
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