A jury convicted two men on Friday of charges related to human smuggling for their roles in an international operation that led to the deaths of a family of Indian migrants who froze while trying to cross the Canada-U.

Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel and Steve Anthony Shand were both involved in a large-scale human trafficking operation that brought Indian nationals to Canada on student visas in order to smuggle them to the U.

MINNEAPOLIS—A federal jury in Minnesota convicted Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, and Steve Anthony Shand, 50, on Friday for their roles in a human smuggling