Two African refugees, who almost died during a trek to cross the U.S. Canada border into Manitoba on Christmas Eve will lose all of his fingers, a toe and possibly his arms.
Razak Iyal and Seidu Mohammed
"It's very bad news, I don't know what to do right now," Seidu Mohammed, 24, told CBC News in an interview at a Winnipeg hospital where he is being treated for severe frostbite.
Mohammed said he fled Ghana for the United States in 2015 because he feared for his life due to his sexual orientation, but when he arrived in San Diego, he was detained for a year.
He applied for asylum after his visa ran out but a judge denied his request, saying: "I run for my life, nobody stopped."
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He and another Ghanaian man, who he met in Minneapolis, decided to flee to Canada. The two of them took a bus to Grand Forks, N.D., then flagged a cab and spent $400 (N200,000) for a ride to a spot near the U.S.-Canada border on Saturday, December 24.
He added saying: "There is a big farm around the border and we passed through, it was very difficult because when we stepped in that farm, the snow was at our waists. If not for [a truck driver], we would have died in that snow."
For at least seven hours, the two trudged through snowy fields with the temperature hovering around the –18 C mark, without the wind chill factored in.