
Afghan woman gives birth to baby girl aboard US evacuation plane
India Today
An Afghan woman gave birth to a girl on a US Air Force aircraft minutes after it touched down at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
An Afghan woman gave birth aboard a US military evacuation flight moments after touching down at Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Saturday. Medical support personnel from the 86th Medical Group help an Afghan mother and family off a U.S. Air Force C-17, call sign Reach 828, moments after she delivered a child aboard the aircraft upon landing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Aug. 21. (cont..) pic.twitter.com/wqR9dFlW1o “The woman went into labour aboard a C-17 transport aircraft during the second leg of her journey fleeing the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan,” the US Air Mobility Command stated in a tweet on Sunday.More Related News

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