Bodies of three Lebanese sisters wash up on its northern shore in Syria

Syria on Sunday returned to Lebanon the bodies of three Lebanese sisters that have washed up on its northern shores after they had gone missing from their village,

Syria’s interior ministry said they found the bodies of “three young women appearing to be in their twenties or thirties”, washed up on a beach in the port city of Tartus.

Syrian state news agency SANA said the Lebanese foreign ministry had reached out to authorities in Damascus “to verify their identity”.