Arrests in bizarre drownings, report says

Couldnt be an honour killing could it? No nothing to see here folks the canal is full of cars full of drowned Muslims all the time.

National Post:

The mystery surrounding the deaths of three Montreal sisters and a relative whose bodies were found in a car in the Rideau Canal deepened yesterday as three people were arrested in Montreal, Global National reported.

The three were reportedly on their way to Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport at the time of their arrest.

Police would only say publicly yesterday that the status of their investigation into the Kingston-area deaths last month had changed.

Neighbours who spoke to Canwest News Service said investigators from both the Montreal and Kingston police forces spent several hours at the victims’ suburban home on Tuesday night.

Kingston police have scheduled a news conference for this afternoon and were expected to make an announcement about the status of the investigation.

Arrests in bizarre drownings, report says

Died in Rideau Canal

Mike Drolet and Paul Cherry, Global National; Canwest News Service; Published: Thursday, July 23, 2009

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    The mystery surrounding the deaths of three Montreal sisters and a relative whose bodies were found in a car in the Rideau Canal deepened yesterday as three people were arrested in Montreal, Global National reported.

    The three were reportedly on their way to Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport at the time of their arrest.

    Police would only say publicly yesterday that the status of their investigation into the Kingston-area deaths last month had changed.

    Neighbours who spoke to Canwest News Service said investigators from both the Montreal and Kingston police forces spent several hours at the victims’ suburban home on Tuesday night.

    Kingston police have scheduled a news conference for this afternoon and were expected to make an announcement about the status of the investigation.

    “Everything will be explained then,” said Kingston police Constable Michael Menor, who refused to provide any other details about the change in the investigation or to acknowledge or deny several media reports about the arrests.

    While Kingston police have always referred to the deaths as suspicious, they initially described the case as a coroner’s investigation, leaving open the possibility the deaths were accidental.

    That appears to have changed.

    Roger Skinner, regional supervising coroner for the Kingston area, would not comment on autopsies conducted on the bodies of the three sisters.

    The bodies of Zainab Shafii, 19, Sahar Shafii, 17, and Geeti Shafii, 13, along with their relative, Rona Amir Mohammed, 50, were discovered in the submerged car, near the Kingston Mills locks, on June 30.

    Ms. Mohammed has been described in media reports as being an aunt to the sisters. But their mother, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, told Canwest News Service that Ms. Mohammed was her cousin. Kingston police have steadfastly referred to Ms. Mohammed only as “a relative.”

    Earlier this month, Ms. Yahya told Canwest News Service that she, her husband Mohammed Shafii, most of their seven children and Ms. Mohammed were returning to Montreal after vacationing and visiting relatives in Niagara Falls, Ont.

    The family, travelling in two cars, stopped at a hotel late at night during the trip and, according to Ms. Yahya, her eldest daughter asked for the keys to their Nissan Altima. Ms. Yahya said she assumed her daughter wanted to practise driving and took the car without permission before it somehow ended up in the Rideau Canal.

    “It’s very tragic, very, very strange,” said Const. Menor shortly after the bodies were discovered, noting that the car’s location — far from any kind of scenic or tourist locale –had investigators puzzled.

    The three sisters were born in Kabul, Afghanistan. Their family moved to Dubai in the 1990s and then to Canada two years ago. No one answered the door at the Shafii home yesterday, and the blinds remained closed as journalists and camera crews gathered outside.

    Neighbour Chantal Tremblay said the police visited the family on Tuesday night.

    “[The police] were here for at least three hours. They arrived at 6 [p. m.] and must have left three hours later,” said Ms. Tremblay, who lives above the family in the duplex.

    Another woman, who lives across the street, said she saw officers go into the house, then saw three men who had been inside emerge and wait on the lawn. “It could have been the father and the brothers, I don’t know,” said the woman, who spoke on condition her name not be used. “When the police cars drove away, the van in the driveway followed them. I don’t know who was in the van.”

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