Emergency services were working on Saturday to recover the bodies of two women who died in the Victorian high country.

The bodies of the women were found by hikers near a remote hut at Nelse, about 400km north-east of Melbourne, on Friday afternoon. Their deaths are not considered to be suspicious, police said.

Police were first called after two hikers found the bodies near Cleve Cole hut about 12.50pm. Two Australian women and four children escape Syrian detention camp and flee to Victoria Read more

“Uniform officers, along with the search and rescue squad and air wing, responded and made their way to the isolated scene,” Victorian police said in a statement late on Friday.

“At this stage the identity of the women is not known but it appears the pair, believed aged in their 20s or

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