London | Although Pamela Fernandes was just 21 in 2015, she already had a five-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son, and was expecting a third child. But on November 5, something much less expected was about to happen in her home town of Bento Rodrigues, in south-eastern Brazil. Her life would change that day, in ways she simply could not have imagined.

Fernandes was still at school in the afternoons, and on her way out to class she quickly kissed her two children goodbye. As she rushed off, her daughter Emanuele called to her, “You hardly kissed me – give me a proper kiss”. Fernandes would never get the chance to kiss her daughter again.