Armyman’s injured wife gives birth to baby girl

JAMMU: A pregnant woman, who was injured during the suicide attack on the

Sunjuwan

military camp in Jammu, delivered a baby girl at the Satwari military hospital on Sunday.

Rifleman Nazir Ahmad’s 35-week-old pregnant wife, along with 11 others, was shot in the lower back when

Jaish-e-Mohammad

terrorists attacked civilians at the family quarters of the Army camp in Sunjuwan on national highway 1A, connecting Jammu to Srinagar, early on Saturday morning. She was rushed to the military hospital in an Army chopper, where a caesarean section was performed on her on Sunday.

“Army doctors worked all night to save the life of the severely injured pregnant woman with gunshot wounds and helped her deliver a baby girl, following a caesarean section operation,” Army PRO Lt Col

Devender Anand

told agencies. “The woman delivered a baby girl weighing 2.5kg. The condition of both the mother and the baby are stable,” he added.

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah termed it a “good news”. “Amidst the tragedy reports of some good news — an injured wife of one of the soldiers delivered a baby at the Military Hospital in Jammu,” he tweeted.