A pair of human smugglers were convicted this week in Minnesota, following the deaths of an Indian family, including two children, who froze during a blizzard in 2022 while attempting to illegally cross into the U.

A jury convicted two men on Friday of charges related to human smuggling for their roles in an international operation that led to the deaths of a family of Indian migrants who froze while trying to cross the Canada-U.

MINNEAPOLIS—A federal jury in Minnesota convicted Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, and Steve Anthony Shand, 50, on Friday for their roles in a human smuggling

A Minnesota jury finds the men guilty of charges related to a human smuggling scheme linked to the 2022 freezing deaths of an Indian family of four at the U.S.-Canada border.

Federal prosecutors plan to argue at a Minnesota trial that two men were part of a criminal network stretching from India to Canada that smuggled families seeking better lives in the United States.

Parents and their two children froze to death during a blizzard while trying to cross from Canada into the U.S.

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- 2 men convicted of charges related to human smuggling after an Indian family froze to death at the Canada-U.S. border.

Four members of family from Gujarat were found frozen in a field barely 12 metres from US border. They had Canadian tourist visas & were planning to cross into US during blizzard.