A second investigative front is developing into the drowning deaths of six foreign nationals and two Canadian children in the St. Lawrence River.
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a U.S. federal agency focused on transnational crime, has opened a “parallel investigation” into the wider network that may have facilitated the ill-fated cross-border human smuggling attempt.
HSI initiated the investigation at the request of Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service (AMPS), according to an AMPS statement emailed to CBC News.
AMPS revealed the request to HSI as it expanded its own investigation into the suspected network that arranged for the transport of four Indian nationals and a Romanian
