Au­top­sies on the bod­ies of two His­pan­ic women found in a shal­low grave in cen­tral Trinidad on Wednes­day night, have list­ed the of­fi­cial cause of death as man­u­al stran­gu­la­tion and as­phyx­ia due to smoth­er­ing.

The vic­tims, both be­lieved to be in their 20s, were found around 11.30 pm in an agri­cul­tur­al plot at Ram­saran Trace, War­ren Road, Cunu­pia.

Act­ing on in­for­ma­tion, of­fi­cers from the Na­tion­al Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Unit (NSOU) led by ACP Crime, Richard Smith went to the lo­ca­tion and found a dis­turbed area ap­prox­i­mate­ly 42 feet from the road­way.