SURREY - Amanpreet Kaur Bahia lay in a pool of blood on her kitchen floor Wednesday with her year-old daughter Jessie sitting on her body.

Bahia's father-in-law, Didar Singh, came upon the horrific scene about 11:30 a.m. and found the 33-year-old mother dead and her two daughters -- Jessie and three-year-old Birinder -- alone. Her third daughter, nine-year-old Harkaran, was in class at Surrey's Khalsa school.

Bahia's distraught relatives described the terrible scene to The Vancouver Sun Thursday as they tried to come to terms with the death of the hard-working, cheerful woman.

RCMP said they have no suspects in the murder -- the third in recent months of a young Indo-Canadian woman in Surrey. Cpl. Dale Carr, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said investigators were not releasing the cause of death, except to describe Bahia's killing as "a brutal violent attack."