Tragedy as mum-of-two, 40, dies suddenly after collapsing at home

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A "devoted" and "inspirational" mum-of-two has left behind two little girls after she suddenly collapsed and died at home. Rachel Kennedy sadly never regained consciousness after the incident at her home and later passed away in hospital on Sunday 19 February, leaving her two daughters without their mum.

She had been struggling with ongoing health complications after catching coronavirus. Her friend Eve Hoyle says she believes Rachel was struggling with unresolved issues and was in ill health at the time of death.

Her cause of death has not been confirmed. READ MORE: 'Our healthy daughter told us her belly hurt... twelve hours later we'd lost her' The tragedy comes just seven years after the 40-year-old mum of two, from Honley in West Yorkshire, lost her baby to a condition so rare that there are only 100 confirmed cases in the world, Yorkshire Live reports.

The tot's condition left her with only one working kidney, a heart defect in her aorta known as a coarctatian of the heart a and cyst on the brain. "Lovable" 15-month-old, Ashleigh Kennedy, died at Calderdale Royal Hospital surrounded by her family in March 2016.