{"id":223729,"date":"2020-05-15T12:43:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=223729"},"modified":"2020-05-14T21:14:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T02:14:56","slug":"terrorist-attack-afghanistan-maternity-mothers-infants-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/terrorist-attack-afghanistan-maternity-mothers-infants-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorist attack at Afghanistan hospital maternity ward leaves mothers and infants dead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A devastating terrorist attack<\/a> on a hospital in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul left 24 people dead on Tuesday, most of them new or laboring mothers.<\/p>\n

During the morning, three gunmen dressed as police officers stormed the maternity ward of the hospital, which is run by the nonprofit group Doctors Without Borders. One of the victims was 31-year-old mother Suraya Ibrahimi, who had just delivered her fifth child, according to the\u00a0New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In her professional life, Suraya was a military officer stationed at the Military of Defense headquarters. On the day of the attack, she was alone at the hospital with her newborn baby since husbands had not been allowed in because of COVID-19 precautions. Her baby survived. Eyewitness accounts tell of another woman who was found lying in her own blood, shot to death with her baby still alive in her arms.<\/p>\n

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In all, two babies were killed and 18 others were transferred to the intensive care unit of another local hospital.\u00a0The attack lasted several hours and ended with all three militants dead. Afterwards, a community elder read the names of the identified women and whether they were dead or alive to a frantic crowd of family members gathered outside the hospital. The children had not yet been named, and were referred to as “child of” the mother’s name.<\/p>\n

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#Kabul<\/a>: Ministry of Interior says special forces have arrived in the area & clash is ongoing. So far 72 civilians, including women & children, have been rescued from the #hospital<\/a> under attack. pic.twitter.com\/0q4Vj3Q1gc<\/a><\/p>\n

— TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) May 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n