Three Relatives of the Pope die in Argentina Car Crash

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The Vatican has announced Tuesday that two of Pope Francis’s great-nephews and their mother, the wife of his nephew, were killed in a car crash in Argentina.

According to the Daily Mail, the family car was driven by Emanuel Bergoglio, Francis’s nephew, which collided with a truck carrying grain. He is in serious condition in a hospital. 

One great-nephew was two, the other was only eight-months. The age of their mother wasn’t immediately available.

A Vatican spokesman said the pope had been notified and is “deeply pained.” He also asks people who share his pain to join him in prayer.

The accident occurred just after midnight Monday near Cordoba, central Argentina. 

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