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A "beloved mother and grandmother" tragically died after choking on a piece of steak whilst on holiday with her husband.
Ceri Ball, 74, died on Friday, October 17. She and her husband, Glyn, 77, were visiting Peñíscola, a Spanish coastal town where they have a holiday home, when she choked to death at a restaurant.
Ceri, from Newport, was treated by paramedics at the scene after waiters and waitresses performed the Heimlich manoeuvre.
As Wales Online reports, after around 20 minutes mercy crews were able to dislodge the food out of Ceri's throat. She was then transferred to the Comarcal de Vinaròs Hospital, where she was put on life-support. As Ceri's two daughters were on the plane heading to be with her their mother's heart gave out and she