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A new mother was reportedly killed shortly after giving birth by being ‘chopped in half’ by an elevator.

The family of the 25-year-old mother-of-three have spoken of how she was being carried out on a stretcher when the elevator malfunctioned and she was cut in two.

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Rocio Cortes Nunes was reportedly travelling from the second to the third floor of the Virgen de Valme Hospital in Seville, southern Spain.

Local media reports the young woman’s dad cried “They killed her! My daughter was killed!” following the tragedy.

Nunes leaves behind three daughters: Carmen, five, Rocio, four and new born Triana.

Her family said a hospital porter moving her between floors had gone to change elevators after the doors opened and closed but it did not move.

As he removed Nunes’s stretcher the elevator reportedly began moving up, trapping her.

It is thought the elevator began moving up before the stretcher was fully in following a suspected mechanical failure with the automatic elevator door.