The bodies of two women found bound together and washed up on the shores of the Hudson River in New York City have been identified as sisters from Saudi Arabia. According to New York police, the city medical examiner’s office has positively identified them as 22-year-old Rotana Farea and her 16-year-old sister, Tala Farea. On Oct. 24, a passerby spotted the bodies along the riverbanks on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Authorities suspect the women somehow entered the river at the George Washington Bridge and then floated roughly six miles. WTVD – Raleigh/Durham Police have identified the two women whose duct-taped bodies were found washed up from the Hudson River as sisters.

Source: Huffington Post October 29, 2018 18:33 UTC