OTTAWA, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The parents and brother of the victims have been charged in their deaths after three sisters and another woman were found dead in a vehicle submerged in the Rideau Canal in southern Canada, police said Thursday.
The three sisters, at 19, 17 and 13 respectively, were found with another woman, 50, in a car submerged in water at a Rideau Canal lock near Kingston, Ontario last month.
The girls' father, mother and their 18-year-old brother all face four counts of first-degree murder each, Kingston police announced Thursday.
The woman victim, who was alleged by the father to be his cousin, was actually his first wife, police said.
Three weeks ago, the father reported police that the family was driving home from a vacation in Niagara Falls in two cars when one of the cars carrying the girls went missing. He said the eldest girl had taken the car without permission. On June 30, police found the four bodies in the submerged vehicle.
Police now allege that the parents and their son all operated the car which was dumped in the canal, and that the father lied when he told police the deaths occurred by accident during a family vacation.
But the details of what led to the deaths were not disclosed.
The family is originally from Afghanistan but moved to Canada after spending 15 years in Dubai. Police say the family's culture may have contributed to the deaths.
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