Belgian police searching for two missing girls today confirmed they had found two bodies.
Police confrimed that the first body found was seven-year-old Stacy Lemmens who disappeared with her stepsister Nathalie Mahy more than two weeks ago.
Stacy disappeared during a late night street party on June 10th along with her 10-year-old stepsister.
Later police said a second body had also been found. It has not been confirmed yet to be the body of the second girl.
A convicted child rapist Abdallah Aid Oud (39) has been charged with their kidnapping and has been held by police since handing himself in on June 13th. Aid Oud denies any involvement in their disappearance and Liege prosecutor Cedric Visart said the questioning had not helped police find the bodies.
Results of autopsies were tomorrow expected to reveal the cause of death.
News reports that a body was found has shocked Belgium, reviving painful memories in Belgium of the killing spree of child rapist Marc Dutroux 10 years ago. His two youngest victims were snatched from a street in Liege and were found dead a year later.
Crown Prince Philippe, the heir to the Belgian throne, said he was scaling back a trade visit to Moscow as a sign of respect for the girls' families. "As parents ourselves we want to express our feelings with the parents," he told reporters in the Russian capital.