DUBAI: A woman has died in a Spanish hospital after she was chopped in half in a lift shortly after giving birth.
The horrific incident happened when Rocío Cortés Núñez, 25, was wheeled into the lift on a stretcher and the doors apparently closed on her head.
According to media reports the lift started to move up from level two, to level three, severing her legs from the rest of her body at Valme Hospital in Seville, Spain.
The victim was also the mother of two daughter aged three and four, according to local press reports.
According to local media reports Nunez had just undergone a C-section and was being taken to a maternity unit when the accident happened.
“We heard a loud blow in the elevator,” her husband Jose Gaspar said.
The victim’s husband-of-four-years, told Spanish paper ABC: “This cannot end like this. This time it has been Rocio but tomorrow it could be another person. I’m a total wreck.”
It is understood that the porter that was pushing the stretcher did not have enough time to move Nunez out of danger.
Regional Health Minister Marina Alvarez confirmed the victim was trapped after the lift made an ‘unusual movement’ as the worker attempted to remove her on a stretcher.
Witnesses say the scene was like “something out of a horror film.”
The victim’s newborn baby was not with her at the time because it was being taken to another hospital for treatment.
“If they hadn’t taken the baby to another hospital she could have suffered the same fate because they always put newborns on their mother’s breast, even when it’s been a Caesarian,” an unnamed hospital worker told the local press.
Now her brother-in-law, David Gaspar, has called for action to be taken.
He said: “It’s incredible. We still can’t believe what’s happened. Something has to happen. This cannot go unpunished.”
