Scotland’s first minister John Swinney also posted his condolences on social media. Floral tributes have been left near a river in Aberdeen after two bodies were recovered from the water in the search for two missing sisters. Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both aged 32, were last seen on CCTV on Market Street at Victoria Bridge over the River Dee in Aberdeen at about 2.12am on Tuesday 7 January. They had been reported missing by their landlady after they sent a text message during the early hours notifying her that they didn’t intend to return to the flat.

A major search operation was launched, with a woman’s body recovered from the river near Queen Elizabeth Bridge just before 8am on Friday. The body of a second woman was found in an area of the river near the Victoria Bridge at around 9.05pm on Friday, Police Scotland said. While formal identification has yet to take place, the sisters’ family has been informed. Several bouquets of flowers have been left near the Queen Elizabeth Bridge, while Scotland’s first minister John Swinney has expressed his condolences.

In a post on X, he said: “Heartbreaking news from the City of Aberdeen this morning. My thoughts are with everyone affected by this very sad news.”. Police said inquiries are ongoing to establish what happened but there are no apparent suspicious circumstances. Superintendent David Howieson said: “Our thoughts remain with the Huszti family and we are keeping them fully updated following these recoveries.

“We know how much of an impact this has had in Aberdeen and much further afield, and I would like to thank everyone who has assisted with our investigation.”. The sisters, part of a set of triplets who had moved to Scotland from Hungary a decade ago, disappeared after leaving their rented flat in Aberdeen in the early hours of 7 January. They crossed Victoria Bridge and turned right onto a footpath next to the River Dee, heading in the direction of Aberdeen Boat Club.

Police have been treating the investigation as a missing persons inquiry rather than a criminal probe, and as part of their investigation discovered the sisters had visited the bridge the day before they disappeared. The sisters had not told relatives they were going to move out of their rented flat immediately. Their brother Jozsef previously told the BBC: “They wrote a message to their landlady that they wanted to immediately end their tenancy agreement. We didn’t have any information about that.