Ewe died giving birth?

I'm not a novice but I've never se3n this before and was hoping some of the more experienced on here could shed some light on this. She was obviously lambing, a long string hanging out, a lot of turning around, laying down and getting back up so we went to do some other jobs. Came back about 2 hours later to find a lamb curled up next to her, she was dead with cleansing and blood in her mouth and a 2nd lamb was presented perfectly with the hooves showing. Still warm but the unborn lamb was dead. When my husband threw her in the pickup a lot of blood came out of her nose/mouth. He thinks she's burst a blood vessel from pushing, I think maybe her heart gave out? Any other theories?
 
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Had a ewe choke last year on the cleansing and like the picture she had a length hanging out of her mouth , and while iv'e never seen a cow choke my dad had and he always said remove the cleansing as soon as
 

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Had a ewe choke last year on the cleansing and like the picture she had a length hanging out of her mouth , and while iv'e never seen a cow choke my dad had and he always said remove the cleansing as soon as

Do they not need to eat it to replace minerals? that's what I always thought.
 

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