Woman delivers sextuplets in Pindi

RAWALPINDI: A 27-year old woman gave birth to sextuplets at the District Headquarters Hospital on Friday – a rare event occurring once in a blue moon.

Zeenat Waheed, wife of Mohammad Waheed, a resident of Hazara Colony, was brought to the hospital Thursday night with labour pains. On Friday, she delivered six babies one after another within one hour. Four of the babies were boys and two were girls and each baby weighed less than two pounds. This was the woman’s first childbirth.

“The...