MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — 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, epitomizing the horror of an attack on humanity’s most innocent.
Highlights
- 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, epitomizing the horror of an attack on humanity’s most innocent.
- The woman was rushed to another hospital, yet closer to the frontline, where doctors labored to keep her alive.
- Realizing she was losing her baby, medics said, she cried out to them, “Kill me now!” The baby was delivered via cesarean section, but it showed “no signs of life,” the surgeon said.