Best friends for decades – until a DNA test revealed they were sisters

Minal, 44, who lives in France with her partner and two sons, told the agency that when her ⁠DNA results came in April, she had initially not realised her match was the same teenage girl who had clung to her when ​they first met 30 years ago.

Two Indian-born women in their 40s, adopted as babies by different families and raised near each other in the Netherlands, have now discovered they are biological sisters.

Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen, born in the early 1980s, were adopted from two different orphanages in the western Indian city of Mumbai within months of their birth.