Two missing Belgian teenagers found unharmed .
BRUSSELS 1996-08-31
Two Belgian teenage girls missing since Thursday have been found unharmed , police said on Saturday .
" The girls , Rachel and Severine , have been found .
They are unharmed , " a police official in Liege said .
He declined to say whether the girls had been kidnapped or whether they had gone away of their own accord .
Late on Friday , the two girls -- Rachel Legeard , 18 , and Severine Potty , 19 -- were reported missing after failing to return home from a shopping trip to the eastern town of Liege on Thursday .
Earlier , police declined to comment on whether it suspected a link with the Marc Dutroux case , the paedophile kidnap , sex abuse and murder scandal which has rocked Belgium in the past two weeks .