Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from a maternity hospital after it was shelled on March 9. The woman and her unborn child later died. A pregnant women who was injured last week in an air strike on a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol has died along with her unborn child. The woman was in the maternity ward of the hospital when Russian forces shelled it, and she was pictured in a widely distributed photograph being rushed to an ambulance on a stretcher holding her swollen belly. Her death was confirmed by local surgeon Timur Marin, according to the Associated Press. It also was reported on Facebook by a journalist with Voice of America and the photographer who took the photo. The woman, whose name has not been released, was taken to another hospital after the maternity hospital was shelled. Marin said that the explosion shattered her pelvis and tore off her thigh. Doctors performed a Caesarean section, but the child “showed no signs of life,” he said. Doctors tried to resuscitate the mother but could not save her. Another woman, Marianna Podhurska, who was also photographed during the shelling of the Mariupol maternity hospital, gave birth to a baby girl on March 10.
via rferl: Pregnant Woman Injured In Shelling Of Ukrainian Maternity Hospital Dies Along With Her Baby