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Giving Birth In Air Strikes: The Life-Threatening Horrors Of Pregnancy In Yemen

Giving Birth In Air Strikes: The Life-Threatening Horrors Of Pregnancy In Yemen

by The Daily Eye Team April 10 2017, 12:48 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 31 secs

Horeh was five months pregnant with her second child when an airstrike destroyed her uncle's house in the Amran Governorate in western Yemen. "It was very loud," the 30 year old remembers. "The explosion was very close." Then she heard the screams of women in the neighborhood. "I heard my neighbors outside shouting that my family had been hit. My brothers came to my house with blood on their faces and hands. They told me my uncle's house had been destroyed and a whole innocent family killed. " Terrified and in shock, Horeh began bleeding. The next day, she miscarried.

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