Saudi sisters likely committed suicide in New York's Hudson River - police


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two young Saudi women whose bodies were found a week ago along the rocky Manhattan shore of the Hudson River, bound together with duct tape around their waist and ankles, likely committed suicide, New York police said on Friday.

Dermot Shea, New York City Police Department chief of detectives, told a news conference sisters Tala Farea, 16, and Rotana Farea, 23, who had been living in Virginia, likely "entered the water alive" and were said to have preferred suicide over returning to Saudi Arabia.

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