Mystery surrounds British mother's sudden death while on holiday
Turkish officials are not saying definitively what killed a vacationing British mother whose heart was allegedly removed from her chest cavity.
Beth Martin, 28, reported feeling ill on her flight from the UK to Turkey, and initially dismissed it as food poisoning.
However, within hours of touching down in Istanbul, Martin grew 'delirious,' and was hospitalised, New York Post reported.
The mother of two died the very next day, on April 28, Daily Mail reported.
Beth's husband, Luke, claimed Turkish officials were less than forthcoming with him, and initially suspected him of poisoning her.
He was able to have his wife's body flown back to the UK, where British coroners told him the unimaginable: Beth's heart had been removed, he said.
The Turkish Ministry of Health revealed Beth's cause of death was 'cardiac arrest due to multiple organ failure', but did not go into detail about what caused that.
The Turkish government further refuted the British coroners' claims, insisting she 'did not undergo any surgical procedures' during a preliminary autopsy at the hospital where she died.
Her family now wonders if her doctors at Turkey's Marmara University Pendik Education and Research Hospital in Istanbul missed something, or may have administered penicillin before learning she was allergic to the drug.
The hospital is now being investigated for Martin's death.
It could take coroners in England six months to determine what caused Martin's organs to start shutting down.
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