Ukraine war: Pregnant woman pictured being evacuated from bombed Mariupol hospital dies with baby

A pregnant woman who was pictured being evacuated from a bombed maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol has died along with her baby.

She was rushed to another hospital following the Russian attack last week, the AP news agency reported.

As doctors tried to save her - and realising she was losing her baby - she is said to have cried out: "Kill me now!"

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Her hip was crushed and her pelvis detached, surgeon Timur Marin discovered.

Following the bombing, Russia denied it had launched strikes on a hospital in the port city and said such claims were "fake news".

Moscow claimed the building was formerly a maternity hospital that had been taken over by troops.