Four Pakistani sisters killed themselves following a row with their father who could not afford dowries for them to get married, officials said on Friday.
The women threw themselves into a canal after arguing with their father in Mailsi, a town in the rural southern part of Punjab province. A fifth sister was pulled alive from the water.
"A poor farmer, Bashir Ahmad Rajput, could not marry his five daughters because he had no money to offer [for their] dowry," Malek Daud Hasnain, a senior police official told AFP.
"After an argument on the issue on Thursday, his daughters became desperate and jumped together into a water canal."