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A Saudi woman who fled her family and became stranded at Bangkok's main airport is flying to Canada after being granted asylum status.

Rahaf, 18, had been trying to reach Australia via Bangkok, but was initially told to return to Kuwait, where her family were waiting.

She refused to fly back and barricaded herself into her airport hotel room, attracting international attention.

The UN's refugee agency has said it considers her to be a legitimate refugee.

Earlier,there, below a small pier at 68th Street, lay the bodies of two young women, bound together by duct tape at their waists. Their bodies bore no obvious signs of trauma.

The women were sisters from Saudi Arabia who lived in Fairfax, Va. They had a history of going missing, and they had recently requested asylum in the United States.