The state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has accepted custody of the bodies of three Revere women found dead in Belize last month.

The families of Kaoutar Naqqad, 23, Imane Mallah, 24, and Wafae El-Arar, 26 — the three women who were found dead in a hotel in Belize in late February — mourn their deaths in a statement shared with PEOPLE.

The cause of death for each of the three Revere women who were found dead in their Belize hotel room was an “acute pulmonary edema."

The Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner’s office will examine the bodies of the three Revere women who were recently found dead in a hotel in Belize to determine their cause of death.