The Liverpool F.C. soccer star Diogo Jota, 28, was killed in a car crash in Spain early Thursday, according to the Spanish police.

Mr. Jota, a Portuguese forward who spent five seasons with Liverpool, died alongside his brother André Filipe, a professional soccer player in Portugal. The crash came less than two weeks after the Liverpool star was married.

“Liverpool Football Club are devastated by the tragic passing of Diogo Jota,” the team said in a statement, calling Mr. Jota’s death an “unfathomable loss.”

According to Spain’s Guardia Civil, emergency crews responded to an accident around 12:30 a.m. Thursday on the A-52 highway near Cernadilla, a town in northern Spain near the border with Portugal.

The Guardia Civil said in a statement that according to initial information, “a car left the road due to a tire blowout while overtaking,” adding that the car had caught fire and both occupants of the vehicle died. It identified the victims as Mr. Jota and his brother.

Spanish news media published photographs and video of a burned and shattered Lamborghini by the side of the highway where the accident occurred.

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