MAN ARRESTED AFTER, 4 PEOPLE, INCLUDING A BABY, WAS FOUND FROZEN TO DEATH NEAR MANITOBA U.S. BORDER

By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada:

A Florida man has been charged with human smuggling after four people, one an infant, were found dead in a Manitoba field, near the Canada-U.S. border, on Wednesday.



The bodies of a man, woman and baby were found together in one area, while the body of a teen boy was found a few metres away.



They are believed to have died from exposure to the freezing weather while attempting to walk across the border from Canada to the United States.



The U.S. officials said one of the adults had items meant for an infant but that no infant was with the group.



A search was immediately launched on both sides of the border and the bodies were found at about 1:30 p.m. on the Canadian side, about 10 kilometres east of Emerson and about a dozen metres from the border.