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Indian village mourns family who froze to death at US-Canada border

Relatives of Jagdish Patel and his wife and children gather to pay their respects at the Patel's family home in Dingucha village, in India's western Gujarat state. REUTERS - AMIT DAVE

An Indian village is mourning a family of four who froze to death while trying to enter the United States by foot from Canada. Streams of people have been visiting the family's home in Gujarat state since their bodies were identified by Canadian police.

On 12 January, Jagdish Patel, his wife Vaishali and their two children aged 11 and 3, reached Canada and then made their way to Emerson in Manitoba province.

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