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Express delivery: woman gives birth to twins on train!

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Press Trust of India Mumbai
Last Updated : Jul 15 2018 | 9:30 PM IST

A 30-year-old woman delivered twins on a Mumbai-Visakhapatnam train at Kalyan Junction near here today, railway officials said.

It was a girl and a boy.

Shaikh Tabassum, a resident of Ghatkopar in Mumbai, was travelling with her family by LTT (Mumbai)-Visakhapatnam Express when she went into labour this morning, a Central Railway official said.

Upon getting information about the medical emergency, the train was halted at Kalyan, 51 km from Mumbai terminus, and a Railway medical team attended the woman.

She gave birth inside the train. Afterwards the mother and the newborns were admitted to a local hospital.

All three were doing fine, the official said.

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First Published: Jul 15 2018 | 9:30 PM IST

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