Story highlights Ouruba Barakat was a longtime activist with the Syrian oppositionDaughter Halla was an American journalist working for Orient TVIstanbul (CNN) Mourners gathered at a mosque in Istanbul on Saturday to pay their respects to a Syrian activist mother and her American journalist daughter who were found slain in their home on Thursday. Their prayer services were held at Fatih Mosque as crying friends and family looked on. The Istanbul killing was uncovered when friends began to worry that 22-year-old Halla was not responding to phone calls and text messages. They notified authorities, who discovered the stabbed bodies in their home located on the Asian side of the Bosphorus River. They had been wrapped in a blanket with detergent poured over it, state news agency Anadolu reported.

Source: CNN September 23, 2017 23:03 UTC