The body of a 7-year-old Indian girl was found in a remote desert area of Arizona on Wednesday — the same day border agents say they were told human smugglers helped five Indian illegal immigrants cross into the U.S.
Border Patrol agents with the Tucson Sector recovered the remains of the young girl early Wednesday morning about 17 miles west of Lukeville, a town that sits on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Officials said Thursday agents encountered two women a day earlier who said they had traveled to the United States from India with another woman and two children. They were traveling through Mexico when human smugglers ordered them to cross the border in a “dangerous and austere location.”