A pregnant woman and her baby died after Russia bombed a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, according to the report. Associated Press. Photos of the woman being rushed to an ambulance on a stretcher traveled the world and quickly became a symbol of the suffering of the most vulnerable in the midst of war.
In videos and images released Wednesday after the hospital attack, the woman is seen stroking her bloodied belly as rescuers pulled her out of the rubble.
The woman was rushed to another hospital, even closer to the front lines, where doctors scrambled to keep her alive and performed a cesarean to remove the baby, but he showed no signs of life, according to surgeon Timur Marin. .
According to Marin, doctors tried to resuscitate the woman for more than 30 minutes, but were unsuccessful. The girl’s pelvis was crushed by the blast and her hips came loose.
Amid the chaos of the airstrike, rescuers didn’t even have time to find out the woman’s name before her husband and father arrived to take the body away, preventing it from ending up in the mass graves of Mariupol.
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