K-9 finds 2 men frozen to death in Adirondacks near Canadian border

Mooers, N.Y. — Two men were found frozen to death last week in a wooded area in the Adirondacks less than one mile from the Canadian border.

The young men were from Senegal, the New York State Police said.

The pair were found March 25 by a Border Patrol agent and a K-9 named Connie during a routine search for “criminal activity” in the town of Mooers, troopers said.

During the patrol, K-9 Connie alerted her handler to a black backpack and a snow-covered mound, troopers said. The agent then found a dead man beneath the snow.

The dog continued to search the area and discovered another dead man covered in snow, troopers said.

The state police identified the two as Abdoulaye Ndoye, 25, and Ndongo Sarry, 25 — both of Dakar, Senegal.

Autopsies determined the men died of hypothermia due to exposure in the wet, cold woods, troopers said. Clinton County Coroner Chad H. Deans ruled Ndoye and Sarry’s deaths accidental.

State police are continuing to investigate.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol told CBS News that agents arrested a record number of migrants trying to cross from Canada into the United States last year — often in remote areas of New York, Vermont and New Hampshire.

The crossings are tough and sometimes deadly.

A group of eight migrants from two families drowned in the St. Lawrence River in Tsi Snaihne (Snye) Akwesasne in March 2023 while trying to cross from Canada into the United States. The youngest was a baby, according to CBS News.