A number of firefighters and ambulance crews were called to an address in Felixstowe last night – where a woman died despite efforts to save her.

Fire crews from Felixstowe and Ipswich East station, based at Ransomes Industrial Estate, were co-responding with paramedics.

They arrived at a home in Beach Road to treat a woman in her 90s – who had gone into cardiac arrest – at around 10.52pm on Sunday, January 29.

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service said: “We received a call at 10.52pm to a report of an elderly woman who had gone into cardiac arrest.

“The property we were called to was in Beach Road, on the west side of Felixstowe.

“The elderly woman, who was in her 90s, was pronounced dead at the scene.

They added: “Our thoughts are with the friends and family of the woman involved at this sad time.”