Canadian police suspend search operations

AHMEDABAD: The Canadian police looking for the missing illegal immigrants after the drowning tragedy in the St Lawrence at the Quebec-New York border last month have suspended the search operations.
The Canadian Coast Guard and the police recovered the eight bodies on March 30. The Gujaratis were identified as Pravin Chaudhary, 50, and his two children Vidhi, 24, and Mitkumar, 20, from Manekpura-Dabhla village of Vijapur taluka in Mehsana.However, Pravin's wife Daxa Chaudhary, 45, who was travelling with them, has been missing since the incident.
Along with them, there was reportedly another family from North Gujarat - a man and his wife, both in their 30s, and their four-year-old child, who are also missing.
The Canadian police had recovered bodies of eight people and three of them were Gujaratis. A statement from the Akwesasne Mohawk police (AMPS) said that the investigation pertaining to the eight deceased victims is still in its early stages, and that the sleuths are still trying to piece together what could have transpired. "The Akwesasne Mohawk Police (AMPS) believe that they have exhausted their efforts on the water. Unless they receive actionable intelligence, the AMPS Snowmobile All-Terrain Vessel Enforcement (SAVE) Team will resume normal patrol operations effective today (April 6) and suspend the organized search," it said.
From March 30 to April 5, AMPS and local law enforcement agencies conducted a thorough water search of the Snye channel and local waterways covering around 8 kilometres of the waterway and shoreline.
The Chaudhary family and another Gujarati family had arrived in Canada on February 3, 2023, on tourist visas according to sources. After staying in Canada for around two months, they decided to cross into the US in a boat but met with the tragedy.
In January 2022, four members of Dingucha village in Gandhinagar -Jagdish Patel, 35, his wife Vaishali, 33 and their two children Vihangi, 12 and Dharmik, 3 - had frozen to death while crossing the Canada-US border.