Spanish mother of three 'crushed between floors' by elevator moments after delivering baby

Rocio Cortes Nuñez, 25, had just given birth by Caesarian section on Sunday in her Spanish hospital when a malfunction of the elevator crushed her between floors and killed the young mother of three.

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A 25-year-old mother of three was tragically killed due to an elevator malfunction that reports say "crushed her between floors."

According to ABC Sevilla, Rocio Cortes Nuñez was at Our Lady of Valme Hospital in Sevilla for a Caesarian section to deliver her third daughter. As she was being wheeled out of the elevator on a gurney, the lift began to rise with its doors open, leaving part of her body hanging outside.

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Rescue officials were called, but she was already "crushed between floors," ABC Sevilla reports.

Officials called the accident "rapid, unusual and tragic," but friends of the victim told ABC Sevilla that the "elevator was suffering breakdowns for a month" before the deadly incident.

Nuñez family, including her husband Jose Gaspar, were shocked by the accident. "This cannot be so," Gaspar said. "Today it was Rocio, but tomorrow can be another person."

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Nuñez's father told the media, "They killed my pretty girl, the joy of the house and left three girls orphaned." According to ABC Sevilla, the family filed a complaint in court on Monday.