Sextuplets die soon after birth

A 32-year-old woman has lost her sextuplets, minutes after giving birth to them, at a private nursing home in Medininagar town of Palamu district.

A resident of Kharsota village in Garhwa district, Sarita Devi, who was in the fifth month of her pregnancy, was rushed to a local nursing home yesterday after she developed a labour pain.

A source in the nursing home said Sarita Devi had delivered three boys and three girls.

None of the six premature babies survived, he added.

A top official of the nursing home said the woman's condition is serious and the doctors are making all efforts for her recovery.