text: 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 .