Kingston Police still puzzled as to how car ended up in canal

Kingston police are no closer to figuring out how a car with four Quebec women inside wound up at the bottom of a canal in that Ontario community.

The bodies of 50-year-old Rona Amir Mohammed and her three teenage nieces, Zainab, Sahar and Geeti Shafi, were found in a submerged car in Kingston early Tuesday morning. 

According to the girls' 15-year-old brother Ali Shafi,  the family had been on its way home from Niagra Falls in two vehicles when they stopped in Kingston for the night.

He also suggests the oldest of his three sisters was learning to drive and may have been behind the wheel of the car.

Kingston police constable Mike Menor can't confirm that but says investigators have been in close contact with the family since the discovery.

Menor says investigators are still trying to figure out how the car got in the canal in the first place.

"Where the car was located in the water...the driver would have to manoeuvre around a very precarious area" says Menor.

"It's just not a normal place for a car to go.  No one would intentionally drive there,"

Menor is hopesful the coroner's report will shed some light one what happened.