Two Saudi Arabian sisters whose bodies were bound together when they mysteriously washed up in New York City had killed themselves, a medical examiner has ruled.
The bodies of Tala Farea, 16, and Rotana Farea, 23, were discovered in October in the Hudson River on Manhattan’s Upper West Side – two months after they were last seen in Virginia where they had been living in a shelter amid allegations they were abused at home.
They were found fully clothed and facing each other with their feet and waists taped together,AP reports.
Authorities at the time said there were no obvious signs of trauma and they were alive when they went into the water.
The medical examiner’s official ruling brings an end to months of rampant speculation about the mysterious deaths of the sisters.
The New York medical examiner said on Tuesday that the sisters had committed suicide.
‘My office determined that the death of the Farea sisters was the result of suicide, in which the young women bound themselves together before descending into the Hudson River,’ the examiner ruled.
The cause of death was drowning.
Tala and Rotana moved to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia with their mother in 2015, settling in Fairfax, a suburb of Washington D.C.
They had been staying at expensive hotels and ordering meals until a credit card they were using maxed out.
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