Tragic turn: Sextuplets lose two siblings

Two of the girls died, while the remaining are still in incubators.

BANNU: Two infants from the sextuplets born in Bannu on Friday died on Sunday morning at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH).

Abdur Rahman Wazir, a tribesman from Datta Khel area of North Waziristan Agency, said his wife gave birth to six children, two boys and four girls on Friday afternoon.

Dr Robina Aman, who delivered the babies at her private clinic in Bannu city, shifted the infants to the CMH as they were all underweight and needed incubators. The father told journalists that two of the girls died while two boys and as many girls were still alive.

“We had decided to celebrate the birth of six children but God took two of our babies from us” he said, adding tribesmen had been congratulating them on the birth of sextuplets.

Wazir said his remaining children are still in incubators at the hospital and he prays they remain healthy.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 27^th, 2014.