A body has been recovered from a river near where two missing sisters were last seen in Aberdeen.

Henrietta and Eliza Huszti, 32, triplets who moved to Scotland from Hungary, were last seen at 2am near the River Dee in Aberdeen on January 7.

A huge missing persons search was launched, amid fears for their safety in freezing weather conditions.

On Friday just before 8am, police were alerted to a body seen in the river and it was recovered from the water.

Eliza and Henrietta Huszti on January 7 (Police Scotland/PA Wire).

A spokesperson for Police Scotland said: “We were made aware of the body of a person seen in the River Dee near Queen Elizabeth Bridge in Aberdeen around 07:55 on Friday.

“The body has been recovered from the water and enquiries are ongoing.”

Police treated the investigation as a missing persons inquiry rather than a criminal probe, and previously revealed that the day before they vanished, the sisters had visited the Queen Elizabeth Bridge.

Superintendent David Howieson said a theory was they had “entered the water for reasons unknown”.