MONTREAL – The bodies of two sisters from Quebec who died in Thailand are expected to arrive home today.
Audrey and Noemi Belanger — aged 20 and 26 — were found dead at a beach resort in the Phi Phi islands, under mysterious circumstances.
Their uncle, Eric Belanger, tells The Canadian Press that preliminary autopsies have already been completed and Thai medical authorities have agreed to release their bodies.
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Thai police have said the women didn’t appear to have been murdered and evidence suggests they may have been accidentally poisoned.
Eric Belanger says it might be a while before the family has a clear answer.
But he says the sisters’ loved ones will at least be able to receive the bodies back home, and continue the mourning process.
Belanger credits diplomats at the Canadian embassy in Thailand for the quick repatriation of their bodies.
The sisters grew up Pohenegamook, a town in eastern Quebec near the Maine border.
They studied in Quebec City with their eldest sister, but worked at the family store in the community of roughly three-thousand.
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