Five Mexican nationals have been arrested for alleged human smuggling activities in San Diego that resulted in the deaths of at least three illegal immigrants, including a 14-year-old boy from India whose 10 year old sister is missing at sea and presumed dead.
Their father, who is in a coma, and mother are currently hospitalized, according to a press release issued by the San Diego U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The dramatic ordeal began after a panga boat, or small open-air fishing boat, carrying the illegal immigrants overturned at sea off San Diego’s Pacific coast on Monday morning.
Initially, nine people were thought to be missing but search efforts by the U.S. Coast Guard lead to them being saved, including the parents of the deceased boy….