Pregnant woman and baby die after attack on hospital in Mariupol
by Associated Press in Mariupol from World news | The Guardian on (#5X2X8)
Woman was taken to another hospital in city in south-east Ukraine where medics could not save her or her child
A pregnant woman and her baby have died after Russia bombed the maternity hospital where she was meant to give birth, the Associated Press has learned. Images of the woman being rushed to an ambulance on a stretcher had circled the world, epitomising the horror of the attack.
In video and photos after the bombing of the hospital in Mariupol last Wednesday, the woman was seen stroking her bloodied lower abdomen as rescuers rushed her through the rubble.
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