Sisters Vanita Richardson (left) and Trevena Clarece Campbell (right) were found dead under a Georgia bridge.

Georgia law enforcement has opened up a homicide investigation after two sisters were found dead under a bridge in the northwest part of the state.

The bodies of Vanita Richardson and her older sister Truvenia Campbell were discovered Wednesday morning near Rome, a city about 70 miles north of Atlanta.

As reported by Rome News-Tribune, their bodies were discovered by two Georgia Department of Transportation workers while performing bridge maintenance on the East Rome Bypass at Loop 1.

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Richardson, who attended Armuchee High School, was 19, and her sister, Cambell, was 30.