Bodies of 2 girls founds in Illinois woods

	A canopy is set up where bodies were discovered Monday.

ZION, Illinois (AP) -- The bodies of two young girls were found in woods Monday morning, not long after two 8-year-olds were reported missing, authorities said.

The girls were discovered by a resident walking through the area near Beulah Park in this town north of Chicago, Deputy Chief Clyde Watkins said. A bike path and a ravine run through the area.

"We had a complaint of two missing 8-year-olds earlier," Watkins said. But he said authorities had not confirmed whether the dead children were the ones who had been reported missing.

He said he couldn't comment further on the report or say whether the missing girls were related.

Zion, some 40 miles north of Chicago near the Wisconsin line, has about 22,000 residents.

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