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Pregnant woman, baby die following Russian bombing of maternity hospital

A pregnant woman and her baby have died after Russia bombed the maternity hospital where she was meant to give birth, according to The Associated Press.

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.

In video and photos that emerged after the attack on the hospital, the woman was seen stroking her bloodied lower abdomen as rescuers rushed her through the rubble in the besieged city of Mariupol, her blanched face mirroring her shock at what had just happened.

It was among the most brutal moments so far in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The pregnant woman on a stretcher

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!”

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