'Why Did She Have To Die?'

CHASE CLARKE WAS DEVASTATED WHEN HIS WIFE KELLY DIED OF PNEUMONIA IN FIJI

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For Chase and Kelly Clarke, it was meant to be the next chapter of their fairytale.

However, just six months after their dream wedding, Chase was shattered following his wife’s shock death on their Fijian honeymoon – a mere two days after she complained of stomach pains.

Kelly, 24, was initially thought to have contracted typhoid, but her heartbroken family later revealed that she had contracted bilateral pneumonia.

The young couple were holidaying at a resort in Sigatoka, ahead of a friend’s wedding, when Kelly – a children’s nurse at Sydney’s Westmead Hospital – mentioned she had pain in her stomach.

Although she initially shrugged it off as a stomach bug, within hours she was rushed to Lautoka Hospital and two days later, on Friday, October 6, she was pronounced dead – with tests revealing she had contracted the fungal infection, which had affected both her lungs.