India, July 3 -- Life is uncertain. At times, it is cruel, merciless and unforgiving. It is difficult to imagine what Rute Cardoso, footballer Diogo Jota's wife, must be going through right now. One should not even try to imagine. Rute lost her husband and the father of her three children, 10 days after they got married. Devastating. Heartbreaking. Unimaginable.

It was nothing short of a dream for Rute and Diogo when the long-time couple got married in an emotional affair on June 22. Little did they know that their joy came with an expiry date. In the early hours of July 3, Diogo Jota and his brother Andre died in a car crash in northwestern Spain early on Thursday, when their Lamborghini veered off the road and burst into flames.

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