A former Miss Brazil has died aged 27 from massive bleeding and a heart attack after a routine tonsil operation.

Beauty Queen Gleycy Correia, who was crowned Miss Brazil in 2018, died in a private clinic on Monday. Correia, from Macae, southeast Brazil, suffered heavy bleeding and a heart attack after her tonsillectomy operation, which involves the surgical removal of the tonsils. She was left in a coma for two months following the cardiac arrest in April.