Three sisters were found dead inside a trunk in their house in Kanpur village of Jalandhar district, police said on Monday. The three girls were reported missing Sunday night at Maqsudan police station by their parents when they did not find them home after returning from work, an officer said.

The family of the migrant labourer had five children, said the police. The sisters were identified as Kanchan, 4; Shakti, 7; and Amrita, 9, they said. All three bodies were sent for postmortem to ascertain the cause of the death, the officer said.