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Six bodies that police recovered on Thursday in a marshy area of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec came from two families seeking clandestine entry into the US, police said on Friday, adding that an infant was still missing.
“The six individuals are believed to be from two families, one of Romanian descent and the other believed to be citizens of India,” Lee-Ann O’Brien, deputy chief of Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service, told a news conference.
Five were adults and one child under three years of age, among six dead. Both children “were associated with the Romanian family” and had Canadian passports, which were found, O’Brien said.
Police will be waiting for the results of post-mortem and toxicology tests to found the reason of death.
Last week US president Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau both agreed to prevent asylum seekers coming from unofficial boarder to Canada, refugees and migrants will take more risks when crossing, a move critics said could mean.
However Akwesasne police said, the agreement which closed an unofficial border entry called Roxham Road in Quebec should not have been a factor here because the families were seeking to go to the US, not come to Canada.
Right now what I can tell you is this has nothing to do with that closure,” O’Brien said because “these people were believed to be gaining entry into the US It’s completely opposite”.
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