Sisters disappear in Fiji

Fiji police have asked the Navy to help search for three teenage sisters feared kidnapped after a boating picnic.

The ethnic Indian women were taken on the trip to Malake Island off the main island of Viti Levu's north coast by a family friend.

The 42-year-old friend, found alone in the dinghy the next day, has told the family and police he was knocked unconscious by three indigenous Fiji men who took the sisters, Ashika, Renuka and Radhika Lata, away.