The families said U.S. Embassy officials told them the women “passed away as a result of acute carbon monoxide poisoning, likely caused by a faulty instant water heater.” The post Families of Revere women found dead in Belize hotel room speak out after learning cause of their deaths appeared first on Boston.

The women’s families issued a statement saying they had been notified by officials in the Central American country Wednesday who told them the women died from “acute” carbon monoxide poisoning, likely from an instant hot water heater.

Three Massachusetts women found dead last month in a seaside Belize hotel died from carbon monoxide poisoning, according to an investigation by the Belizean government, CBS Boston reported Wednesday,