The vehicle in which the Portuguese soccer player of Liverpool Diogo Jota and his brother, also the footballer André Filipe, were filled in the median after leaving the road on the highway highway (A-52) in Cernadilla (Zamora, Spain).
At 12:35 in the morning the notice was received for the accident, and firefighters, the Civil Guard of Traffic and Health Emergencies were quickly activated.
Upon arrival at the site of the incident, the firefighters of the Rionegro del Puente Park, belonging to the Fire Extinction Consortium of the Diputación de Zamora, could only intervene to cool the car to prevent the fire from extending to the adjoining vegetation, said one of the firefighters.
The vehicle in which they were traveling, a Lamborghini, was completely calcined, with the bodies of the two brothers inside, after the accident he suffered on the A-52 highway at kilometer 65,300 in Cernadilla, said the subdelegate of the Government in Zamora, Angel Blanco, who publicly transmitted his condolences by the event.
The investigation of the accident initially points to the vehicle suffering the burst of a tire while carrying out an overtaking, according to sources of the government sub -delegation in Zamora.
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Relatives of Diogo Jota move to Spain for autopsy
The place where the event occurred was a straight section of the A-52 highway, whereby the tourism in which the two players were traveling circulated in the Benavente direction, contrary to Portugal.
In the accident Digo Jota, 28, and his brother André Filipe Texeira da Silva, 25, also a professional footballer, whose relatives moved from Portugal to Zamora, where the autopsy of the bodies is performed at the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences.
According to what is detailed by the government’s subdelegate, in the autopsy they will try to obtain fingerprints and resort to DNA tests that will have to be sent to Madrid for analysis and confirmation, from the legal point of view, of the identity of the victims.
The autopsy is performed at the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Zamora.
For its part, the Junta de Castilla y León has activated psychological assistance teams to serve the family and information services in Portuguese and English for information requests.
Diogo Jota was currently a Liverpool player since 2020 after having been at Atlético de Madrid in 2016 and later in FC Porto until 2018, when he went to the English League, while his brother André played at Futebol Clue Penafiel, team of the Second Portuguese division.
With EFE information
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