Deceased’s sibling Navjot Singh said his father Balwinder Singh had been working in Dubai for the last six years and he had taken a bank loan of Rs 20 lakh to send his brother to Canada for higher education. Jasandeep had flown to Canada on March 5 to pursue higher studies in information technology.

OTTAWA – A young Indian student drowned in an Ottawa lake during an outing with friends.

Jasandeep Singh, 19, was from Randhawa Colony in Fatehgarh Sahib 

Deceased’s sibling Navjot Singh said his father Balwinder Singh had been working in Dubai for the last six years and he had taken a bank loan of Rs 20 lakh to send his brother to Canada for higher education. Jasandeep had flown to Canada on March 5 to pursue higher studies in information technology.

Navjot said his father couldn’t fly to India in the wake of Covid outbreak, adding that his brother’s friends in Canada had collected funds through social media to send his body to India.

He said the family had been waiting for the body to arrive, and urged the political leaders to help them in this hour of crisis.

Earlier, two youths from Punjab had died in a road accident in Vancouver, Canada, on Monday night. While one of the victims hailed from Machhiwara town, the other one was from Mohali. They were returning home in a car when one of them lost control over the vehicle.