Witness of death

My wife comes from the north-west of Spain, and we often spend holidays on the Mediterranean coast at Torrevieja, where we have made a number of friends from different parts of Spain who also holiday there. A married couple, our very good friends, went on holiday for this past New Year to The Canary Islands. We were astounded when Sarah phoned us to say that on the second night that they were having dinner in their hotel Andres started choking, and despite the best efforts of the hotel staff & paramedics, they were unable to save him. A couple of weeks later my wife received a phone call from her sister in La Coruña who told about her recent visit to the Canary Islands. She said that when there, while having evening dinner, a man at a nearby table had collapsed. There had been a lot of people milling around the collapsed person and when she asked the staff she was told that the man had died. Upon asking about the date of the incident and the name of the hotel these turned out to be identical to those that Sarah had given us. So this means that Carmen’s sister, who had no knowledge of Sarah and Andres, went to the same hotel as them for New Year & witnessed the sad death of our great friend.