By Tales Azzoni and Joseph Wilson
Liverpool player Diogo Jota and his brother have died in a car accident in Spain, police said Thursday.
The Spanish Civil Guard confirmed to The Associated Press that Jota and his brother were found dead after their car went off a road near the western city of Zamora. Authorities said the car — a Lamborghini, according to police — was in flames.
Firefighters were called in as the fire spread into the nearby vegetation, authorities said.
Police were investigating the causes of the accident that happened past midnight local time. They said there were no other vehicles involved. The bodies were undergoing forensic analysis.
The 28-year-old Jota and his brother, 25-year-old André Silva, both Portuguese players, were in the car.
Jota’s death comes weeks after he married Rute Cardoso and in a social media post wrote, “Yes to forever.” They had three children, the youngest
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