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Her feet were left dangling in the lift shaft after the machine started moving upwards at the hospital in Seville, southern Spain, it is reported.
A horrified new dad heard a “loud blow” as his wife’s body was reportedly cut in half by a hospital lift moments after she gave birth to a baby girl. Rocio Cortes Nunez, 26, was being taken via stretcher to a maternity unit on the third floor, after waking up from a C-section, when the tragedy occurred.
Her husband, Jose Gaspar, was waiting for her with other relatives when they suddenly heard a massive noise from the lift, according to local media.
“We heard a loud blow in the elevator,” Jose told El Correro.
The family members later learned Rocio, who has two other young daughters, had become trapped in the lift, with her head stuck between its frame and roof.
It is claimed she was literally divided into two in the horrific incident.
Rocio, whose other little girls are aged three and four, was being transported to the unit after waking up from her Caesarian anaesthetic yesterday afternoon.
Her relatives told a local paper a hospital porter had gone to change lifts after the door opened and closed twice without anything happening.
The tragedy at Valme Hospital was suspected to have been caused by a mechanical failure with the automatic lift door.
Rocio’s family told Europa Press they were “shattered” and “devastated” by her death.
Local reports said firefighters took nearly two hours to free her mauled body following the tragedy at around 2.30pm.
Sadly, nothing could be done to save her life.
Her family have already made a formal complaint to a court which will investigate the tragedy.
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