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Manitoba RCMP in Toronto to track path migrant family took

Jagdish Patel (left to right), son Dharmik Patel, wife and mother Vaishaliben Patel and daughter Vihangi Patel are shown in a handout photo. A relative of the Patels who froze to death in southern Manitoba while trying to cross the United States border says it's expected that their bodies will not be flown home to India for a funeral. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Amritbhai Vakil **MANDATORY CREDIT**

Investigators with Manitoba RCMP are in Toronto tracking tips and information related to an Indian migrant family who froze to death last month near the Canada-U.S. border.

RCMP say they are still trying to confirm the family’s movements from Toronto to southern Manitoba.

Mounties and diplomatic officials last week identified the four dead as a couple and their two children from a village in the state of Gujarat in western India.

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Their bodies were found on Jan. 19 near Emerson, Man., just metres from the border.

Cpl. Julie Courchaine with Manitoba RCMP says investigators continue to work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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She says investigators are also meeting regularly with RCMP liaison officers in New Delhi and in Washington, D.C., and are in contact with Indian consular officials.

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