Photos: Pregnant woman and her baby die after Russia bombs maternity hospital

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A wounded pregnant woman seen in photos around the world being rescued from a maternity hospital after it was bombed by Russia last week has died, along with her baby, The Associated Press has learned.

Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry a wounded pregnant woman from a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling on March 9 in the port city of Mariupol, Ukraine. The woman and her unborn child have since died after Russia bombed the facility where she was meant to give birth. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Images of the woman, whom the AP has not been able to identify, were seen around the world, personifying the horror of an attack on civilians. She was one of at least three pregnant women tracked down by AP from the maternity hospital that was bombarded Wednesday in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

In video and photos shot by AP journalists after the hospital attack, the wounded woman stroked her bloodied lower left abdomen as emergency workers carried her through the rubble, her blanched face mirroring her shock at what had just happened. It was among the most brutal moments so far in Russia’s now 19-day-old war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

The woman was taken to another hospital, closer to the front line, where doctors tried to save her. Realizing she was losing her baby, medics said, she had cried out to them, “Kill me now!” Dr. Timur Marin said Saturday that the woman's pelvis had been crushed and her hip detached. Her baby was delivered via cesarean section but showed “no signs of life,” he said.They tried to save the woman, and “more than 30 minutes of resuscitation of the mother didn’t produce results,” Marin said. “Both died.” (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Two other expectant mothers survived, along with their newborn daughters. - Mariana Vishegirskaya walks downstairs at a maternity hospital damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. Vishegirskaya survived the shelling and later delivered a baby girl in another hospital. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Medical workers hold newborn Alana close to her mother after a cesarean section at a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 11, 2022. Alana's mother had to be evacuated from another maternity hospital that was bombed by Russian forces and lost some of her toes. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A man holds a baby during an evacuation from a maternity hospital damaged by a shelling attack in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Associated Press journalists, who have been reporting from inside blockaded Mariupol since early in the war, documented this attack on the hospital and saw the victims and damage firsthand. They shot video and photos of several bloodstained, pregnant mothers fleeing the blown-out maternity ward, medics shouting, children crying. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A car burns at the side of a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Elsewhere, an explosion is seen in an apartment building after Russian's army tank fires last Friday in Mariupol. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A woman who was evacuated from Irpin cries while kissing a cat wrapped in a blanket at a triage point in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 11. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry a wounded pregnant woman from a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling on March 9 in the port city of Mariupol, Ukraine. The woman and her unborn child have since died after Russia bombed the facility where she was meant to give birth. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

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