Jalandhar, July 6 -- A harrowing tale of illegal immigration has come to light as five youths - four from Punjab and one from Haryana - attempting to reach the US through the notorious "donkey route", fell victim to brutal torture at the hands of human traffickers in Colombia. The ordeal surfaced after the family of Balwinder Singh (25) from a village in Kapurthala district filed a complaint with local authorities, accusing four travel agents of duping them of Rs.28 lakh under the pretext of facilitating legal travel to the US. According to the family, Balwinder was abducted by a gang known as "donkers", which operates in the jungles of Panama and Colombia, in February . The gang allegedly subjected the youths to torture to extort ransom from their families. Chilling videos of the intense torture, including use of iron roads, electric shocks, inflicting injuries on the youths with sharp blades, asphyxiation bids with plastic bags and burning plastics bottles on the body of the victims, went viral on the social media. Balwinder's mother Shinder Kaur said the family first received a torture video on February 13, after which the abductors demanded a large sum of money. Kaur said her son was accompanied by three other youths from the Doaba region and one from Haryana. On May 29, Balwinder finally contacted his family and recounted his escape. According to him, three of the five youths were killed, while he and another survivor managed to flee through dense forests before reaching a safe residential area in Colombia....