Baby critical after tree kills pregnant woman
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DOCTORS carried out an emergency cesarean to deliver the baby of a pregnant woman killed by a falling tree in Hong Kong yesterday.
The tree struck the woman, knocking her unconscious, at around 2:30pm in the city’s Mid-Levels neighborhood.
The woman, identified by police as a 37-year-old Hong Kong resident surnamed Zhang, was rushed to hospital but certified dead on arrival.
“The mother was certified dead. The baby is still in the intensive care unit and the condition is critical,” a hospital authority spokesman said.
Hong Kong’s summer months often experience wet and windy conditions and the city lies in the path of seasonal typhoons.
In the last 24 hours torrential downpours have dumped as much as 40 centimeters of rain on the city of some 7 million.
Witnesses said people at the scene helped lift the tree off the mother who had sustained injuries to her head.
“The people at the nearby bus station were saying that there seemed to be someone crushed by the tree, so a few of them walked there and lifted the tree to find a pregnant lady there, she was not moving,” a witness surnamed Lee told Cable TV News.
“The tree crushed a pregnant female, she was unconscious and after she was sent to a hospital, she was certified to be dead,” a police spokeswoman said, without giving further details.
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