What we know about the ‘suspicious disappearance’ of two women in Oklahoma

Police are still searching for two Kansas women who were on their way to pick up children to take them to a birthday party, with investigators now saying that “foul play” is suspected in their disappearance.

Authorities say that Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, mysteriously vanished in a rural part of Texas County, Oklahoma.

Both women are thought to be involved in religious communities in Hugoton, Kansas, with Ms Kelley being the wife of a pastor in the area, but he had recently taken up a new posting in Nebraska.

There have been no sightings of the women since they seemingly abandoned a car that authorities believe they were travelling in.