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Woman gives birth to 'bus baby'
31/01/2008 16:01 - (SA)
Beijing - A pregnant Chinese woman trapped on a bus in icy weather in south China for three days has given birth to a baby boy, state press said on Thursday.
Appropriately enough, the baby will be named Zhongsheng or "Born in a Crowd".
Chu Hongling, 24, and her husband were en route to their hometown in Hunan province to give birth over the Lunar New Year holiday when snowstorms left them stranded in a massive traffic jam in Guangdong province.
The New Express newspaper said the couple spent three freezing days on the bus, with the husband walking 3.5 kilometres several times a day to buy meals for his wife, the report said.
"We never thought we would be stuck on the highway for three days and three nights. I was so afraid it would harm the baby," Chu, who last year suffered a miscarriage, told the paper.
The plight of the couple, both migrant workers in booming Guangdong, was finally brought to the attention of local police, who managed to bring an ambulance through the snarled traffic.
The two were then evacuated to a nearby village hospital where the baby boy was born Wednesday, it said.
South-central China has nearly come to a standstill as the worst weather in 50 years has cut off power and blocked roads and railways while millions begin the annual Lunar New Year pilgrimage home for family reunions.
- AFP
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