Suspects In Kingston Canal Deaths In Court

Mohammad Shafia, Hamid Mohammed Shafia, 18 and Tooba Mohammad Yahya. All three have been charged in Kingston with four counts of first-degree murder and four counts of conspiracy to commit murder. The bodies of Yahya and Mohammad’s daughters - Zainab, 19, Sahari, 17 and Geeti 13 - and Mohammad's first wife, Rona Amir Mohammad, were found in a car submerged in the Rideau Canal on June 30. Photograph by: Marcos Townsend/Tyrel Featherstone, Canwest News Service

From The Montreal Gazette:

KINGSTON, Ont. — A Montreal couple and their teenage son were scheduled to appear in court Thursday to face charges in the deaths of four women found dead in a submerged car in the Rideau Canal in June.

Mohammad Shafia, 56, wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 39, and son Hamed Shafia, 18, are charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of the couple's three daughters, Zainab, 19, Sahari, 17 and Geeti, 13, along with a 50-year-old woman, Rona Amir Mohammad, believed to be the father's first wife.

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Update #1: Parents, son, to face murder charges in Ontario court -- CTV

Update #2: Canal deaths accused to make court appearance -- CBC