A security guard at a housing colony in Chhatral town in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar district pointed out to the block at the end of the lane to an outsider looking for directions on Friday. “Ever since the news came out in local media on Friday about the death of a resident of our society in a foreign country, all kinds of people including government officials, media persons and police officials have been visiting this place. They are a good and respected family in this area,” he said.
There are close to 800 units in this housing society, painted in pale white and yellow and lies in the vicinity of Chhatral GIDC, an industrial estate that houses a number of manufacturing facilities.
The deceased, 36-year-old Brijkumar Yadav, earlier worked in GIDC, according to a police official. This was before the pursuit for better opportunities that seems to have driven him and his family by taking an illegal route that endangered their lives.
On December 14, Yadav died after he fell off a metal barrier on the United States-Mexico border (also called the ‘Trump Wall’) while holding his three-year-old son, who survived, according to a report by Daily Mail.
The victim was scaling over a 30-foot border fence while carrying his son when they fell to the ground on the Mexican side of the border in Tijuana, it said.
His wife, who suffered a fractured hip and an arm injury, was rushed to a hospital in San Diego. Mexico’s National Institute of Migration said the couple and their son…
