‘Perfect’ twin girls die and parents fight for life after Spain crash

Twin sisters aged nine have died in a car crash while on a family holiday in Spain.

Paria Najmi died instantly after the vehicle her father was driving overturned on a motorway in the north of the country. Her twin Galia died in hospital overnight. It was reported locally that they were not wearing seatbelts.

Their parents, Homayoun Najmi and wife Farzaneh Heidari, both 45, are in intensive care in Pamplona.

Neighbours of the family, who are originally from Iran and live in Holland Park, said they had been on a three-week trip to Spain, Morocco and Germany.

Matilda Mutasa said: "I saw them packing their car on Monday and they were all so excited. The girls were perfect, they were beautiful. Why did this have to happen to those lovely little babies?"

The accident took place just after 5pm yesterday on the AP15 route close to Tudela, near Zaragoza, Police would not comment on the reports about the seatbelts.

On Sunday, two British children, Amir Chady Khan, two, and sister Amelle, nine months, died in a car crash in Burgos province.