An Indo-Canadian man has been charged with killing his two-and-half-year-old daughter in the Vancouver suburb of Delta because he did not like having a third girl child.

Lakhvinder Singh Kahlon (47) reportedly slit the throat of his baby on Friday morning at their home when his wife, Manjit, was away to drop their two older daughters at school. He was reportedly unhappy having a third daughter.

When Manjit returned home at about 8.45 am, she found the baby, Ravinder, dead. Screaming, she ran out for help. Neighbours called the police, who came and surrounded the house immediately and arrested Kahlon.

A construction worker, Kahlon was reportedly unhappy since Ravinder’s birth and didn’t go to work.

Although the police didn’t say how Kahlon killed the daughter, the neighbours said his distraught wife told them that he had slit her throat. The body could be removed from the crime scene only on Friday night.