Twelve-Year-Old Bride Dies After Being in Labour for Three Days

Western Morning News, The › September 14, 2009

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A 12-YEAR-OLD Yemeni child bride died after struggling for three days to give birth.

Fawziya Abdullah Youssef died of severe bleeding on Friday while giving birth to a stillborn child in the al-Zahra district hospital of Hodeida province, 140 miles west of the capital San'a.

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Twelve-Year-Old Bride Dies After Being in Labour for Three Days

Child marriages are widespread in Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, wh...

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