Human smuggler Fenil Patel, who killed family of 4, fingered by CBC

Fenil Patel smuggled a family of four through Canada before they froze to death on the Manitoba border with the U.S. He was found living freely in a suburb outside Toronto by the CBC's The Fifth Estate. The Patel family (no relation) died of exposure on Jan. 19, 2022, while attempting to cross illegally into Minnesota. The frozen bodies of Jagdish Patel, 39, his wife, Vaishali, 37, their daughter, Vihangi, 11, and son, Dharmik, 3, were found 12 metres from the U.S. border. They died in -35 temperatures and a blinding snowstorm. Fenil Patel is facing charges in Gujarat of culpable homicide and human smuggling for his role in the death of the Patel family.

Fenil Patel is alleged to have driven dozens of illegal Indian migrants from Toronto to B.C and then to Manitoba as a full time, professional human smuggler.