Iraqi woman gives birth to quadruplets

2011-04-02 19:15:51 GMT+7 (ICT)

WASSIT, IRAQ (BNO NEWS) -- A 27-year-old woman gave birth to four children in southern Iraq on Friday, local media reported on Saturday. One of the children immediately died.

The Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported that the unidentified mother gave birth at al-Haj Jalal Hospital in Numaniya township of Wassit Province on Friday. Doctors performed a caesarean section to deliver the babies.

The doctor who carried out the operation told Aswat al-Iraq that the babies are three boys and one girl. And while the boys and their mother are in good health, the doctor said, the baby girl died during the operation.

Quadruplets, meaning four babies, are quite rare. The last known example happened in December 2010 when a woman identified as Pyon Kum Ok gave birth to four healthy babies at a hospital in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

But the most extreme example of multiple births are nonuplets, two sets of nine babies who were born in Australia in 1971 and in Malaysia in 1999. None of the 18 babies survived.

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Dick and Bush did it.