Sydney police identify Saudi sisters found dead in home

Austrailian police have identified of two Saudi sisters who were found dead in Sydney last month after they fled Saudi Arabia.

The bodies of the two young Saudi women were found in their home in Canterbury, southwest Sydney on June 7. Their death was deemed "unusual" and police immediately sent a plea for more information.

Police on Tuesday identified them as Asra Abdullah Alsehli, 24, and Amaal Abdullah Alsehli, 23, but still have little information on the cause of their death.

The sisters were found by officers conducting a welfare check after they failed to pay a month's rent and mail piled up at their front door. The women had been dead for "some time" when found, police said.

There were no signs of forced entry into the flat, and no signs of injury on the women, whose decaying bodies were found in separate bedrooms - but police said they were treating the deaths as suspicious.

“Detectives are interested in speaking with anyone who may have seen or who may have information about the women’s movements in the days and weeks prior to their deaths — which we believe occurred in early May," said Detective Inspector Claudia Allcroft, crime manager of Burwood Local Area Command.

“Extensive inquiries have been made by Strike Force Woolbird detectives; however, we have been unable to determine the exact circumstances surrounding Asra and Amaal’s death."

A post-mortem examination took place but police are yet to receive the coroner's report or toxicology results, she added.

Allcroft said police were in contact with their family who remain in Saudia Arabia.

The two had fled Saudi Arabia as teenagers in 2017, Daily Mail Australia reported. They led quiet lives in Sydney's Canterbury suburb, and had friendly interactions with locals.