AMMAN // Jordanian police on Saturday released a suicide note written by one of two high-profile sisters whose bodies were discovered at the base of a building on an Amman construction site.
In the letter, Soraya Salti, 44, asked her mother to tell her 12 -year-old daughter Raya how much she loved her.
“Dear Mama, I love you and Baba so much. This is so much bigger than us,” she wrote.
Police said they found the letter inside a blue Honda Civic car which belonged to her sister Jumana, 37, the day they were both found dead in a rundown area in the south of the Jordanian capital.
Soraya headed Injaz Al Arab, an education initiative that promoted entrepreneurship across the Arab world. Jumana was a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers based in Dubai since 2008.
Police have already declared that the deaths were a double suicide. But the tragedy has sent shock waves through the country and sparked rampant speculation that the sisters were murdered.
Police insisted on Saturday that there was no foul play and released fresh details about the case to end the rumours, mostly circulating on social media.
In the letter, Soraya mentioned photos on both of her computers that she was trying to put on a USB storage device. According to the police forensic lab, the handwriting matched that of Soraya.
Police insisted at a press conference yesterday there was no foul play in to their deaths. They said the sisters were taking anti depressants and were suffering from stress.
On the day that their bodies were found, the two had driven from their family home in Shmeisani, Amman, to the Bisharat Golf Club. Their bodies were found by a janitor below a six-storey building on a construction site in Jwiedeh a few hours later.
Their mother Rebecca, an American, said her daughters did not have enemies. Their father told police that although his daughters were stressed, he did not believe they committed suicide.
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