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Rocio Cortes Nunez, 26, was killed as she was being transported between floors in the Virgen de Valme Hospital in Seville, Spain, on Sunday.

The mum-of-two, of Dos Hermanas near Seville, was being carried to the maternity unit on a stretcher shortly after a C-section – with her new baby daughter in her arms – when tragedy struck.

The lift is understood to have started moving upwards before the stretcher was fully inside after a suspected mechanical failure with the automatic lift door.

Now heartbroken husband, waiter Jose Gaspar, has spoken out as images emerge of his late wife.

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The husband-of-four-years told ABC: "This cannot end like this.

"This time it has been Rocio but tomorrow it could be another person. I’m a total wreck."

Rocio's mum, Carmen, added: "My heart missed a beat. I asked after my daughter but no-one was telling me anything.

"She had given birth at 11 in the morning so I went to the information desk.

"They told me there a young girl had died and then confirmed it was my daughter. What a cruel death she’s suffered."

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Local reports say she was literally divided into two in the horrific accident, around 2.30pm.

Police and firefighters rushed to the scene along with duty medics but could nothing to save her life.

Firefighters took two hours to reach her mauled body after her head was trapped between the lift frame and roof as it started moving upwards and her feet left dangling in the lift shaft.

Her devoted family said they would be calling for "heads to roll".

Brother-in-law David Gaspar said: "It’s incredible. We still can’t believe what’s happened.

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"Something has to happen.

"This cannot go unpunished."

Relatives said a hospital porter had gone to change lifts after the door opened and closed twice without anything happening.

The started moving upwards before he was able to pull the stretcher with Rocio on it to safety.

Regional health minister Marina Alvarez called the accident "quick, unusual and tragic" as she said the lift had undergone checks on August 12 and announced an immediate investigation.

The girl is understood to have been unharmed.

One local report said the lift began to function unexpectedly before Rocio was fully in and the doors had closed, cutting off her neck as her head was trapped in the top of the lift and her feet left dangling beneath her.

But regional health minister Marina Alvarez - responding to initial reports that the porter was leaving the lift after he pressed the button to go up but nothing happened - said Rocio was trapped after the lift made an "unusual movement" as the worker went to remove her on a stretcher.

Witnesses have described the incident as "something out of a horror film".

One unnamed hospital worker said: "If they hadn’t taken the baby to another hospital she could have suffered the same fate because they always put new-borns on their mother’s breast, even when it’s been a Caesarian."