Photos: Maternity hospital bombed in Ukraine
Ukrainian emergency workers carry an injured pregnant woman outside of a bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 9. Despite efforts to resuscitate the woman and her baby, both later died.
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In pictures: Maternity hospital bombed in Ukraine

Photographs by Evgeniy Maloletka

Updated 2124 GMT (0524 HKT) March 14, 2022

Ukrainian emergency workers carry an injured pregnant woman outside of a bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 9. Despite efforts to resuscitate the woman and her baby, both later died.
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Russian forces bombed a maternity and children's hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 9.

An Associated Press photo of emergency workers carrying a pregnant woman on a stretcher outside the hospital was widely shown around the world in the aftermath of the attack. She and her baby later died, a surgeon who was treating her confirmed.

The surgeon, Timur Marin, told Ukrainian television from Mariupol: "While she was being resuscitated and the anti-shock measures were being taken, we performed a caesarean section and took a child with no signs of life. The child's resuscitation for more than half an hour did not work. Resuscitation of the mother for half an hour or more — without any results. They both died."

According to the AP, medics did not have time to get the woman's name before her husband and father came to retrieve her body so she wouldn't end up in one of the city's mass graves.

The attack came despite Russia agreeing to a 12-hour pause in hostilities to allow refugees to evacuate a number of towns and cities.

A woman walks outside after the shelling. The Mariupol city council said Russian forces dropped several bombs on the hospital from the air.
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Ukrainian servicemen work inside the damaged hospital. "The destruction is enormous," the Mariupol city council said. "The building of the medical facility where the children were treated recently is completely destroyed."
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Mariana Vishegirskaya walks downstairs to exit the hospital. She survived the shelling and later delivered a baby girl in another hospital.
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A car burns outside the building.
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A man carries his child away from the hospital.
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Ukrainian emergency employees work at the site of the bombing. "People, children are under the wreckage," Russian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram. "Atrocity! How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror?"
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A wounded man exits the building.
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Ukrainian soldiers and emergency employees work at the site of the shelling.
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A volunteer surveys the damage.
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Smoke rise after the shelling in Mariupol. The strategic port city on Ukraine's southeast coast has been under siege for days.
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