A U.S. Homeland Security agent believes the four people found dead on Wednesday in a field on the Manitoba side of the Canada-U.S. border may have been victims of a wider human smuggling operation.
The bodies of a man, a woman and a baby were found together in one area near the town of Emerson, while the body of a teen boy was found a few metres away, RCMP said on Thursday.
Before their bodies were discovered, U.S. Border Patrol officers had stopped a 15-passenger van about one kilometre south of the international border in a rural area between the official ports of entry at
