KINGSTON, Ont. - The trial of a Montreal family accused of killing three teenage sisters over family honour resumed today in Kingston, Ont.
The case was abruptly adjourned Thursday after one of the accused became ill.
Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, her husband Mohammad Shafia, 58, and their son, Hamed Mohammad Shafia, 20, are each charged with four counts of first-degree murder.
The judge didn't specify which accused was sick, but Mohammad Shafia was the only one of the three not in the courtroom Thursday.
The trial resumed today with the continuation of the video of the interrogation of Yahya, and minutes after it started Shafia buried his face in his hands and appeared to cry.
Shafia, Yahya and Hamed are accused of killing three teenage Shafia sisters, Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, and Rona Amir Mohammad, 50, who were found dead inside a submerged car in June 2009 in the Rideau Canal in Kingston.
Mohammad was one of Shafia's two wives in a polygamous marriage.
© The Canadian Press, 2011