Quintuplets die in Kenya

Nairobi – A Kenyan mother who gave birth to rare naturally conceived quintuplets has lost all five babies, according to a hospital in the southwest of the country.

The mother, Jacintah Akinyi, 30 – who did not know she was carrying five babies – went into labour on Sunday and gave birth to two babies at home, who both died, before being transferred to the Kisii Teaching and Referral hospital.

Nurse manager Florence Ogero said the remaining three had also died.