A pregnant woman injured in the Russian bombing of a Ukrainian maternity and children’s hospital has died along with her baby.
Images had shown her being rushed to hospital on a stretcher following the air strike on the hospital in Mariupol on Wednesday, which killed at least three others and has been condemned as a war crime.
The widely-circulated pictures showed the woman stroking her bloodied lower abdomen as rescuers carried her through the rubble in the besieged port city.
Medics said she shouted “kill me now” when she realised she was losing her baby.
A surgeon said on Saturday both the child and mother had died.
Timur Marin, who treated the woman at another site after the one in Mariupol was destroyed, said her pelvis had been crushed and her hip detatched during the air strike on the hospital where she was meant to give birth.
He said medics delivered the baby via caesarean section but it showed “no signs of life”.
They then tried to resuscitate the mother for more than 30 minutes, but efforts proved unsuccesful, Mr Marin said.
“Both died,” the surgeon said.
