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Updated at 7:53 p.m., Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Two women killed in Kaua'i hiking accident

Advertiser Staff

LIHU'E, Kaua'i—Two women died today when they fell 250 to 300 feet down a cliff alongside 'Opaeka'a Falls in Wailua.

Police said the women appeared to have been hiking along an unmarked trail when they fell. Their bodies were found by other hikers about 1 p.m., lying about 35 feet from the base of the waterfall.