Identities of bodies found near Canada-U.S. border confirmed by High Commission of India

Four people found frozen in a Manitoba field near the Canada-U.S. border last week have been officially identified as a group of Indian nationals, the High Commission of India in Ottawa says.

While Manitoba RCMP initially identified the people as a man, woman, teenage boy and infant, the High Commission said in a news release on Thursday the children who died were actually a girl and a toddler.

The four were Jagdish Baldevbhai Patel, a 39-year-old man, Vaishaliben Jagdishkumar Patel, a 37-year-old woman, Vihangi Jagdishkumar Patel, an 11-year-old girl, and Dharmik Jagdishkumar Patel, a three-year-old boy, the news release said.

Autopsies of the four, which RCMP