Four members of a close-knit Indian family who briefly called Toronto home were mourned Monday after drowning in the frigid St. Lawrence River during a failed border crossing at Akwesasne Mohawk Nation.
Speaking during a joint funeral at Etobicoke’s Lotus Funeral and Cremation Centre, Monali Chaudhari said her cousins Mitkumar, 20, and 23-year-old Vidhiben along with her aunt Dakshaben, 45, and 49-year-old uncle, Pravinbhai, were a family that was “filled with love and laughter” and will now forever be together.
Monali said the loss of her two cousins is especially difficult as they’re right around her age and had “such a life to still live.” Non-profit Humans for Harmony facilitated the ritual after being contacted by the Indian consulate in Canada as relatives were unable to afford to send the four bodies back home. The Chaudharis will be cremated in the coming days and their ashes will be returned to India.
“We are not sure why or what drives people in their minds to not only visit to but to try make that kind of step which a disaster which is for them and the whole community,” he told CTV News Toronto prior to the service. He also said that he hopes that those involved in trafficking people illegally across the border understand the often deadly outcomes of their actions.
Late last week, Achal Tyagi, superintendent of police for the Indian city of Mehsana, told CTV News Toronto that the family from Gujarat province was in Canada on a travel visa.
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