Manitoba border deaths: Trial hears diapers, mittens set off search for family found frozen [Video]

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. –

A U.S. border patrol intelligence agent recalled Tuesday feeling horrified when he realized a group of migrants from India, including a young child, were out in a freezing blizzard on a stretch of open prairie at the border between Manitoba and Minnesota.

“My heart sank … because there’s more people out there,” Daniel Huguley testified at the trial of two accused human smugglers.

Some adult migrants had already been picked up after trying to walk undetected across the border on Jan. 19, 2022. One of them had a backpack, and Huguley said he looked inside.

“First thing I saw … was that diaper.”

Diapers, baby wipes, little mittens and two toy cars — one red and one white — were shown in photos at the trial. Huguley said he alerted a supervisor that there were clearly still people missing.

A few hours later, metres from the border on the Canadian side, RCMP found the frozen bodies of a …