Investigators say they found a car and two bodies in a pond in Chaska, Minnesota, shortly after resuming a search Sunday for two young women who went missing early Saturday. Family members say they both work the night shift and typically meet in the Chaska area on their lunch breaks. One works in one in Shakopee and the other in Chaska — both near Minneapolis. Leaders of that community say the bodies were those of Abdi and Abdalla. Your email address will not be published.
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By Jennifer Smith For Dailymail. A pair of Somali-American cousins and best friends have been found dead in a pond in Minnesota after disappearing during their night shift breaks and calling for help. Bushra Abdi and Zeynab Hafsa Abdalla, both 19, were found in the pond near Chaska, Minnesota, on Sunday night, almost 24 hours after disappearing. One was found in a gray Chevrolet Impala that belonged to Hafsa's family and the other was in the water. Police say their deaths are the result of a tragic car accident and that no foul play is suspected but their investigation is ongoing. Bushra Abdi left and Zeynab Hafsa Abdalla right were found dead in their car in a pond in Chaska, Minnesota, on Sunday night, almost 48 hours after going missing on their break from their night shift jobs.
Two Bodies And A Car Found In Pond During Search For Teens Who Called 911 For Help Before Vanishing
The bodies of two Somali girls pulled from a pond in Chaska, Minnesota have been confirmed by friends and family members to be two year-old cousins who went missing early Saturday morning while on a break from work. One body was found floating in the water and recovered, while the other body was found in the submerged car. An urgent search arranged by family and friends began after Abdi and Abdalla left their workplaces just before 3 a. Saturday during a break. Minutes later, they called for help — then their phone went dead.
Two bodies were pulled from a murky pond in Chaska late Sunday, bringing a frantic two-day search for two year-old cousins and best friends from Shakopee to a tragic end. After several hours of searching the pond, police and firefighters announced via loudspeaker to the crowd of several hundred people, many of them from the Somali-American community, that one body had been found in the still-submerged car. Soon after, they announced that a second body had been found in the water nearby. Although authorities did not officially identify the recovered bodies as those of Abdi and Abdalla, family members said that they were told they were almost certainly theirs. No foul play was suspected, they said.