A trial is set to begin on Monday in Minnesota regarding a human smuggling case involving the tragic deaths of an Indian family at the Canada-US border two years ago. Federal prosecutors are set to argue that a criminal network, stretching from India to Canada, profited from smuggling families seeking better opportunities in the United States, which ultimately led to the deaths of a couple and their two young children.

Prosecutors have accused 29-year-old Indian national Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel of running the smuggling operation, and 50-year-old Steve Shand of Florida is accused of waiting in a truck for 11 migrants, including a family of four, who died while trying to walk across the US-Canada border in freezing conditions.